Sentences with phrase «as public nuisance»

Before that moment, he might have gone to jail as a public nuisance.

The New Orleans City Council voted 6 - 1 Thursday to remove four prominent Confederate monuments as a public nuisance.

But he said for residents the odour that could be reasonably inferred to be emanating from the facility is «extremely annoying, irritating and offensive to the senses warranting consideration as a public nuisance.»

Not exact matches

In 2017, the California cities of San Francisco, Oakland, Santa Cruz, and Imperial Beach, as well as Santa Cruz county, Marin County, and San Mateo County attempted to sue oil majors over climate change damages, citing a theory called «public nuisance.»

The nurse - ins are wonderful, and extremely supportive for nursing moms, but to the general public may be seen as a big nuisance.

The reality is that Andrew Cuomo is a true master of Albany's dysfunctional political culture in which public transparency and participation are viewed as nuisances, and obstacles to actually getting things done.

The 11 different taxes on petroleum products in the country have sparked calls on the government and other stakeholders to eliminate some of them, described by a section of the motoring public as falling in the category of nuisance taxes.

Rarely is there a strict definition of what constitutes «public nuisance», and the behaviours that can be prosecuted under it can vary with time, as what society accepts can change.

But as the history of graffiti art has shown, there's a fine line between sophisticated public art and irritating public nuisance.

«We know alcohol outlets can be associated with unsafe nuisance activities in urban areas, but this study appears to be the first to suggest U.S. tobacco shops may also impact public health,» said Andrew Subica, Ph.D., an assistant professor of social medicine, population, and public health in the School of Medicine, who led the study that focused on South Los Angeles, Calif. «Our analyses show that in South Los Angeles tobacco shops as well as liquor stores were associated with high levels of violent and property crime around their locations.

«Even though tobacco shops have rarely been targeted by the police or community for intervention,» he added, «based on our data, we believe tobacco shops in urban communities of color should be regulated to improve community health in the same way as alcohol outlets and other public nuisances.»

People in public education unwittingly destroy school cultures all the time by treating educators as interchangeable cogs, transferring principals and teachers without regard for a school's approach and operating assumptions, by creating one - size - fits - all mandates that suggest a school's distinctiveness is a nuisance, not a value, and by sending mixed messages and edicts from the central office until people are burned out and resentful.

The last thing you want to be in the public realm is a nuisance to anybody, or to come off as an uninformed amateur.

The Environmental Public Health Act states that guide dogs may be allowed into all areas of food establishments, including the toilet and dining areas, as long as they are well - behaved, not causing any nuisance, and are leashed.

Upon the granting of equitable relief, in whole or in part, by a court of competent jurisdiction, the owner of an animal determined to be a public nuisance shall be liable for the reasonable attorney fees and costs, as may be determined by the court, incurred by the party bringing the action.

Before the test is administered, owners sign the Responsible Dog Owners Pledge by which the owner agrees to meet their dog's health, safety, exercise, training and quality of life needs as well as cleaning up after their dog in public places and never allowing their dog to become a nuisance.

As they try to survive, stray cats and dogs cause problems for people, including public health risks, property destruction, and nuisance behaviors.

In 2003, a study conducted by the county on the ban's effectiveness noted that «public safety is not improved as a result of [the ban],» and that «there is no transgression committed by owner or animal that is not covered by another, non-breed specific portion of the Animal Control Code (i.e., vicious animal, nuisance animal, leash laws).»

It shall be unlawful for any person to keep or maintain any animal in such manner as to cause or permit the animal to be a public nuisance, whether or not a complaint has been received by Animal Control.

No person shall keep or maintain any animal in such a manner as to cause the animal to become a public nuisance, or disturb the peace, comfort or health of any person.

Not having accessible spay / neuter programs can be expensive to a community due to excessive costs of impounding and sheltering unwanted animals, extensive spending by local governments responding to animal complaints such as dog bites and other nuisances, and public health and safety risks.

There are typically already other laws on the books which cover matters that may be of concern to officials, such as public health, trespass and nuisance laws.

«We've [also] spent decades training the public to think of the shelter as the first resort for dealing with a concern about animals, so whether that's... an animal that's a nuisance, or an animal that you see in the neighborhood, we've very much [ingrained] the concept of taking that animal to an animal shelter,» says Levy.

Public nuisance is a threat to the community, such as a drug den or a pile of hazardous waste.

The problem with many of these ordinances, including the Michigan case as well as this new Memphis case, is that a garden becomes a «public nuisance» when one of your neighbors calls to complain about it.

In California, public nuisance means anything injurious to health, which is indecent or offensive to the sense, or an obstruction to the free use of property, so as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life and property.

Our lawyers have defended class actions and individual cases alleging personal injury and property damage from environmental contamination or exposure to chemical products based on all types of legal theories, including negligence, fraud, failure to warn, negligent misrepresentation, trespass, private and public nuisance and damage claims such as «fear of cancer» and medical monitoring.

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The lawsuit was brought in BC Supreme Court against me personally and as a representative of BROKE for trespass, public and 3 private nuisances, assault, intimidation intentional interference with contractual relations, and conspiracy.

New York City filed a lawsuit earlier this year against the world's five largest publicly traded oil companies, claiming «public nuisance» as a cause of action.

Whether or not the First or Second Defendant is liable to any of the Claimants by reason of the emissions of any odours from vehicles carrying animals or animal parts or products to or from the Erlings Works as they use the public highway, including any emissions of odours from spillages on to the highway, whether in private or public nuisance or in negligence or otherwise

As the proposed construction is on public premises, you have a responsibility to protect patrons from any risk inherent with the construction as buildings in the course of construction tend to be an «attractive nuisance»As the proposed construction is on public premises, you have a responsibility to protect patrons from any risk inherent with the construction as buildings in the course of construction tend to be an «attractive nuisance»as buildings in the course of construction tend to be an «attractive nuisance».

Public nuisance is defined as an unlawful act, the effect of which is to endanger the life, health, property, or comfort of the pPublic nuisance is defined as an unlawful act, the effect of which is to endanger the life, health, property, or comfort of the publicpublic.

Do you see a valid complaint from a member of the public or one of your salespeople as a nuisance to be ignored?

Under Florida's rewritten statues, not even blight or public nuisance will suffice as reasons to condemn.