Sentences with phrase «public nuisance means»

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.

Not exact matches

That means city inspectors are going to be sending you lots of public nuisance letters for cleanup.

Castillo and Clarke, though highly critical of TNR («This method is not an effective means to control the population of unwanted cats and confirms that the establishment of cat colonies on public lands encourages illegal dumping and creates an attractive nuisance.»

With a decision that could have far - reaching implications, a federal judge in California has ordered the first ever U.S. court hearing on climate science for a «public nuisance» lawsuit, meaning that major oil and gas companies for the first time may have to go on the record regarding what they knew about the planetary impacts of their products — and when.

In practice that meant that a claimant had to show that but for the statute he would have had an action for damages for public or private nuisance.