1. As an alternative to the remedies under this chapter, a city, or a county if a property that is alleged to be a public nuisance is located outside the limits of a city, may petition the court for an injunction that requires the owner of the property to correct or eliminate the condition or violation causing the public nuisance. Service of the original notice shall be made as provided in section 657A.2, subsection 1.

Terms Used In Iowa Code 657A.10C

  • Building: means a building or structure located in a city or outside the limits of a city in a county, which is used or intended to be used for commercial or industrial purposes or which is used or intended to be used for residential purposes and includes a building or structure in which some floors may be used for retail stores, shops, salesrooms, markets, or similar commercial uses, or for offices, banks, civic administration activities, professional services, or similar business or civic uses, and other floors are used, designed, or intended to be used for residential purposes. See Iowa Code 657A.1
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Livestock: includes but is not limited to an animal classified as an ostrich, rhea, or emu. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Owner: includes a person who is purchasing property by land installment contract or under a duly executed purchase contract. See Iowa Code 657A.1
  • property: includes personal and real property. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Public nuisance: means a building that is a menace to the public health, welfare, or safety, or that is structurally unsafe, unsanitary, or not provided with adequate safe egress, or that constitutes a fire hazard, or is otherwise dangerous to human life, or that in relation to the existing use constitutes a hazard to the public health, welfare, or safety by reason of inadequate maintenance, dilapidation, obsolescence, or abandonment. See Iowa Code 657A.1
 2. This section shall not apply to a house, barn, outbuilding, or other building or structure located on agricultural land. For purposes of this subsection, “agricultural land” means land suitable for use in farming. For purposes of this subsection, “farming” means the cultivation of land for the production of agricultural crops, the production of fruit or other horticultural crops, grazing, or the production of livestock.
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