The officers were using nuisance laws to attack drug activity in the building.

The precinct is now trying to close it for good under the city's new public nuisance laws.

Citizens and local officials retain the right to sue using nuisance laws.

Sometimes, hecklers wind up in jail when film production people decide to take the time to press charges under public nuisance laws.

The city could have augmented existing nuisance laws with new ones, like a ban on neon signs in some neighborhoods.

In New York, law enforcement officials have long used local nuisance laws to shutter nightclubs with a history of drug problems.

They blame what they call Rhode Island's quirky public nuisance laws.

There are also no leash or nuisance laws for cats in Stamford and their owners are not required to license them.

Thompson argued that it violated Florida's public nuisance laws, which prohibit activities that can injure the health of the community.

Read on to learn the origins of attractive nuisance laws and see examples of the 10 most common attractive nuisances.

The program, which requires municipal approval, assures a farmer freedom from municipal nuisance laws and eminent domain.

The suit also alleges that the defendants violated Federal and state antitrust laws and state public nuisance laws.

The environmental bureau also dusted off a rarely used legal weapon - public nuisance laws - to go after some companies that were creating chronic pollution problems.

Children's well-known propensity for putting themselves in harm's way is at the heart of attractive nuisance laws, which strive to protect our smallest humans from their own curiosity.

"It seemed as if the officers knew exactly who they were looking for," said Mr. Holland, who was charged with violating nuisance laws and possessing an unregistered handgun.

The arrest tally is, in part, a result of increased police attention to traditional homeless encampments and to complaints about homeless people violating public nuisance laws, police officials said.

In this role Lee was critical of broad reach of the State's anti-public nuisance laws which he said contributed to the controversial and violent arrest of a homeless pensioner.

Though cabaret and nuisance laws have reduced club-related crime (in fact, the now defunct Palladium nightclub may be turned into a 20-story condominium building), some investors remain wary about downtown.

"If you have people who are selling drugs and their turf is a building, you go after the building: you go after the landlord, you use nuisance laws, whatever it takes.

Portland as Pioneer Most cities' nuisance laws are similar to the one used by Portland, Ore., which in 1987 became one of the first to apply such a statute against drug houses.

Because of the initial lack of targeted legislation, on both federal and state level, the most typical strategy by law enforcement was the application of nuisance laws pertaining to vagrancy and disturbing the peace.

Mr. Butts has also spoken in favor of youth curfews and enforcement of public nuisance laws, and he has proposed confiscating vehicles from drivers who blast loud music from their car stereos.

Right to farm laws (sometimes called nuisance laws) deny nuisance suits against farmers who use accepted and standard farming practices, even if these practices harm or bother adjacent property owners or the general public.

"There's a long history of the state suing under public nuisance laws when there is interference with a transportation corridor," said Karl S. Coplan, a law professor at Pace University who specializes in environmental law.

In fact, the huge buses and trucks filled with scowling crews in headbands are usually escorted through the streets by chummy policemen in squad cars, even as they flout public nuisance laws limiting sound levels.