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50 O.S. § 1 Nuisance defined
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A nuisance consists in unlawfully doing an act, or omitting to perform a duty, which act or omission either: First. Annoys, injures or endangers the comfort, repose, health, or safety of others; or Second. Offends decency; or Third. Unlawfully interferes with, obstructs or tends …
50 O.S. § 1.1 Agricultural activities as nuisance
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A. As used in this section: 1. "Agricultural activities" includes, but is not limited to, the growing or raising of horticultural and viticultural crops, berries, poultry, livestock, aquaculture, grain, mint, hay, dairy products and forestry activities. "Agricultural activities" …
50 O.S. § 10 Civil action
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A private person may maintain an action for a public nuisance if it is specially injurious to himself, but not otherwise. R.L.1910, § 4259.
50 O.S. § 11 Abatement by officer
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A public nuisance may be abated by any public body or officer authorized thereto by law. R.L.1910, § 4260.
50 O.S. § 12 Abatement by person injured
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Any person may abate a public nuisance which is specially injurious to him, by removing or, if necessary, destroying the thing which constitutes the same, without committing a breach of the peace or doing unnecessary injury. R.L.1910, § 4261.
50 O.S. § 13 Remedies against private nuisance
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The remedies against a private nuisance are: 1. A civil action; or, 2. Abatement. R.L.1910, § 4262.
50 O.S. § 14 Abatement of private nuisance
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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. R.L.1910, § 4263.
50 O.S. § 15 Notice, when required
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Where a private nuisance results from a mere omission of the wrongdoer, and cannot be abated without entering upon his land, reasonable notice must be given to him before entering to abate it. R.L.1910, § 4264.
50 O.S. § 16 Cities and towns - Power to define and summarily abate nuisances
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A. Cities and towns in this state shall have the right and power to determine what is and what shall constitute a nuisance within their respective corporate limits, and for the protection of the public health, the public parks and the public water supply, shall have such power ou…
50 O.S. § 17 Abatement by suit in district court
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In cases where it is deemed impractical summarily to abate any such nuisance such city or town may bring suit in the district court of the county in which such nuisance is located, and it is hereby made the duty of the governing body of any such city or town, by the adoption of a…
50 O.S. § 2 Public nuisance
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A public nuisance is one which 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. R.L.1910, § 4251.
50 O.S. § 20 Counties with population in excess of 550,000 - Power to declare and abate nuisances
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The board of county commissioners of any county in this state with a population in excess of five hundred fifty thousand (550,000) may declare what shall constitute a nuisance, and provide for the prevention, removal and abatement of nuisances for those properties acquired by the…
50 O.S. § 21 Real property used for drug distribution, prostitution, or human or sex trafficking
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The repeated use of any real property or structure thereon to commit unlawful drug distribution, prostitution, or human and/or sex trafficking acts shall constitute a public nuisance. Added by Laws 1998, c. 326, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1998. Amended by Laws 2008, c. 381, § 2, eff. July…
50 O.S. § 3 Private nuisance
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Every nuisance not included in the definition of the last section is private. R.L. 1910, § 4252.
50 O.S. § 4 Statute authority
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Nothing which is done or maintained under the express authority of a statute can be deemed a nuisance. R.L.1910, § 4253.
50 O.S. § 41 Location of slaughterhouse
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It shall be unlawful for any person to maintain a slaughterhouse within less than one-half (1/2) mile of any tract of land platted into lots and blocks as an addition to any town or city within the State of Oklahoma, except in conformity with the zoning ordinances of said town or…
50 O.S. § 42 Cemeteries
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It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or association to lay out, establish, or use for burial purposes any cemetery, graveyard or burial grounds less than three-fourths (3/4) of one (1) mile from the incorporated line of any city of more than five thousand (5,000…
50 O.S. § 42.1 Authority of municipal governing bodies to permit burial locations
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Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 42 of Title 50 of the Oklahoma Statutes, governing boards of any incorporated municipality shall be authorized to permit the burial of human remains or the relocation of human remains to a new burial place on the grounds of a public insti…
50 O.S. § 43 Nuisance may be enjoined
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The maintaining of any slaughterhouse or location and use of any graveyard or cemetery in violation of the provisions of this article, is declared to be a nuisance, and any person owning real estate within any such addition to a town or city, or within lands so platted and set ap…
50 O.S. § 44 Duty of officers
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It shall be the duty of any sheriff, constable or other police officer to make complaint against such nuisance and hasten its abatement as herein provided. R.L.1910, § 4268.
50 O.S. § 5 Persons liable
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Every successive owner of property who neglects to abate a continuing nuisance upon, or in the use of such property, created by a former owner, is liable therefor in the same manner as the one who first created it. R.L.1910, § 4254.
50 O.S. § 6 Abatement does not preclude damages
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The abatement of a nuisance does not prejudice the right of any person to recover damages for its past existence. R.L.1910, § 4255.
50 O.S. § 7 Time does not legalize
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No lapse of time can legalize a public nuisance, amounting to an actual obstruction of public right. R.L.1910, § 4256.
50 O.S. § 8 Remedies against public nuisance
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The remedies against a public nuisance are: 1. Indictment or information, or; 2. A civil action, or; 3. Abatement; R.L.1910, § 4257.
50 O.S. § 9 Indictment or information
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The remedy by indictment or information is regulated by the law on crimes and punishment and criminal procedure. R.L.1910, § 4258.