Chapter 50: Nuisance Abatement Procedure

§ 50.01 Definition Of Nuisance

The text in force on August 11, 2010, and every version since 2010.

Unofficial compilation built from the City's published 2010 Code chapters and the text of adopted ordinances. Effective dates are inferred from adoption records; scanned chapters were OCR'd. The City of Tiffin's adopted Code of Ordinances governs. Not legal advice.

50.01 DEFINITION OF NUISANCE

Whatever is injurious to health, indecent, or unreasonably offensive to the senses, or an obstruction to the free use of property so as essentially to interfere unreasonably with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property is a nuisance.

(Code of Iowa, Sec. 657.1)

2010 Code (city website file), in force from August 11, 2010 · source page

Confirmed by the city's current text: the 2026 draft recodification (August 2026, not adopted) has the same words (§ 50.01, p. 117).

In the 2026 draft (a comparison with a draft, not adopted): § 50.01 — unchanged · compare

History

From	To	Source	How	Document
Aug 11, 2010	today	2010 Code	base text · text	p. 1

Dates: an Iowa ordinance takes effect when it is published after adoption. Where the clerk's certificate records the publication date it is used; otherwise the adoption date stands in for it. "Not yet consolidated" means the ordinance amends this section but its new text has not been checked into this compilation yet: read the ordinance.

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