DIVISION 4. GENERAL PROVISIONS 3274-9566›PART 3. NUISANCE 3479-3508.2›TITLE 3. PRIVATE NUISANCES 3501-3503

§ 3502

California Civil Code · 2026-09 edition · updated 2026-10-03 · California

A person injured by a private nuisance may abate it by removing, or, if necessary, destroying the thing which constitutes the nuisance, without committing a breach of the peace, or doing unnecessary injury.

(Enacted 1872.)

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