(a) No person shall create, erect, maintain or continue a nuisance, as defined in subsection (b) of this section, within 200 feet of either side of the right-of-way of any public highway entering into the City of Wilmington for a distance of 1 mile from the corporate limits of the City, or within the boundaries thereof, upon land of which such person is partner, or persons are the owner, lessee, agent, tenant or occupant.
(b) As used in this section, “nuisance” means any condition of the land, or of the buildings erected thereon, or of the trade or business conducted thereon, or of unsightly articles collected thereon or therein or of obnoxious odors arising thereon, therein or therefrom, which causes any annoyance to the persons making use of any public highway, as mentioned in subsection (a) of this section, by being offensive or obnoxious to the senses of such persons.
(c) The Council of the “Mayor and Council of Wilmington” may abate the nuisance by the enactment of ordinances giving directions for the cleansing, removal or remedy of the matter or thing complained of and providing penalties for violations of its orders to be recovered in the Court of Common Pleas.
35 Del. Laws, c. 90, §§ 1-3; Code 1935, §§ 2465-2467; 17 Del. C. 1953, § 516; 71 Del. Laws, c. 176, § 26.
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