Earlier in the day he told reporters the police action was not an eviction but just "nuisance abatement."

Both clubs were closed under the city's nuisance abatement law on Aug. 23.

Nuisance abatement is a growing area within policing and code enforcement.

"In looking for something that provided definitive results without adding pressure to the system, we realized nuisance abatement would work."

Under the plan, the department will expand its so-called nuisance abatement program to 55 precincts.

Under the city's nuisance abatement law, three arrests at a club can be enough to shut it permanently.

As of late last month, the Queens vice unit employed the nuisance abatement law 49 times this year, he said.

“Using nuisance abatement laws, we will make sure this activity is gone for good.”

And it went: nuisance abatement, mortgage foreclosure, divorce, child custody.

Nuisance Abatement programs exists in a number of communities and are organized at the city, county and state levels.

The police were documenting a pattern of crime, planning to seek sanctions under civil nuisance abatement laws.

Nuisance abatement programs are most often a component of problem oriented or community policing programs.

In most Canadian jurisdictions, bylaw enforcement officers handle nuisance abatement.

The police said they brought nuisance abatement proceedings against the club last year because of drug activity, assaults and under-age drinking.

Other categories of code enforcement issues, such as nuisance abatement and demolition liens, are still not eligible.

Using nuisance abatement statutes, they are closing small stores that peddle drugs along with cigarettes or beer.

The final one would expand nuisance abatement laws to shut down businesses that sell fake identification to minors.

Councilwoman Brewer expressed surprise that the owners had chosen to close in the face of the nuisance abatement notice.

In the last year, the police, using a nuisance abatement statute, have raided and closed several stores suspected of being fronts for drug dealers.

The police closed the arcade after a nuisance abatement order was issued yesterday based on violations for underage drinking and violence.

Issue nuisance abatement notices to dog owners if an appropriately completed barking log is submitted to Council.

In San Francisco there are multiple departments who together work to ensure safe neighborhoods through the use of nuisance abatement and other similar codes.

He described it as "nuisance abatement" to enforce regulations that allow 24-hour vigils on federal property in Washington but not camping or sleeping.

The authorities say they found success by using New York's nuisance abatement law, originally intended to close massage and gambling parlors.