An unreasonable interference with a right of the general public, including interference with the public health, safety, peace, comfort, or convenience.
Public nuisance is a criminal offence that relates to any damage or interference with public property in general. This can come from actual damage to public buildings and thoroughfares, and from excessive fumes, dust and noise. The nuisance must be removed or the parties involved receive an injunction.
Allows states to take action when there is an unreasonable interference with a right common to the general public. A public nuisance need not effect the entire community, but must substantially interfere with a public right to use a natural resource. Public Nuisance has been used to justify the collection of NRD in New York State.
a nuisance that unreasonably interferes with a right that is common to the general public; "a public nuisance offends the public at large"
a condition or activity which substantially or unduly interferes with the use of a public place or with the activities of an entire community
a deed that causes damage to public health or order or that obstructs public rights
an act or condition that unlawfully operates to hurt or inconvenience an indefinite number of persons
an act that causes inconvenience or damage to public health or order or that obstructs public rights
a Nuisance that "affects at the same time an entire community or neighborhood, or any considerable number of persons, although the extent of the annoyance or damage inflicted upon the individuals may be unequal
a nuisance that affects a wide class of the public in general
a nuisance that affects equally the rights of an entire community or neighborhood, although the extent of the damage may be unequal
an unreasonable interference with the rights of the general public
Behaviour that interferes with the rights of the community by causing damage, annoyance or inconvenience in a public place.
In the English criminal law, public nuisance is a class of common law offence in which the injury, loss or damage is suffered by the local community as a whole rather than by individual victims.