Compton Municipal Code § 7-13 Nuisances

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Editor's Note: Regulations providing for the City government to cause the summary abatement of nuisances, see Gov. Code § 38773.

[Ord. #856, § 4300]

No person shall create, cause, commit or maintain within the City, either on public or private property, a public nuisance, as the same is hereafter defined in the following subsections of this section.

[Amended by Ord. #1595, § 4300.1]

It is hereby declared to be a public nuisance to do any of the following:

a. Maintain anything which is injurious to health, or is indecent or offensive to the senses, or is an obstruction to the free use of property, or interferes with the comfortable or safe enjoyment of life or property by the entire community or by any considerable number of persons in the City, or unlawfully obstructs the free passage or use, in the customary manner, of any river, bay, stream, canal or basin, or any public park, or street; or to place, keep, store or maintain any lumber, stone, rock, pipe, machinery, equipment or debris upon any property within any residential district, unless the same is to be immediately used in the erection or construction of a building, for which a building permit has been obtained, unless such person so placing, keeping, storing or maintaining said material and equipment first obtains a permit from the City Manager so to do.

b. Throw, place or deposit any debris upon the property of another.

c. Maintain, own, operate, manage any place of business, establishment or room in a place of business or establishment from which minors are not excluded, and which said room or establishment has as one of its purposes or its sole purpose the sale, distribution, exhibition or display of devices, contrivances, instruments or paraphernalia for smoking or injecting marijuana, hashish, PCP, or any controlled substances, other than prescription drugs or devices to ingest or inject prescription drugs, including roach clips, and cigarette papers and rollers designed and used for smoking the foregoing, is hereby declared to be a public nuisance, and may be abated pursuant to the provisions of Section 731 of the Code of Civil Procedure of the State of California. This remedy is in addition to any other remedy provided by law, including the penalty provisions applicable for violation of the terms and provisions of this Code.