Iowa Code

Iowa Code § 657.3 (2026)

Penalty — abatement

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A person who is convicted of erecting, causing, or continuing a public or common nuisance as provided in this chapter, or at common law when the common law has not been modified or repealed by statute, if no other punishment for the offense is specially provided, shall be guilty of an aggravated misdemeanor. The court may order the nuisance abated and issue a warrant as provided in this chapter. [C51, §2762; R60, §4412; C73, §4092; C97, §5081; S13, §5081; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §12397; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §657.3] 2020 Acts, ch 1063, §366; 2021 Acts, ch 80, §372

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 7 cases, 1990–2017 · leading case: Bd. of Water Works Trs. of the City of Des Moines, Iowa v. Sac Cnty. Bd. of Supervisors, as Tr. of Drainage Districts 32, 42, 65, 79, 81, 83, 86, & Calhoun Cnty. Bd. of Supervisors & Sac Cnty. Bd. of Supervisors as Jt. Trs. of Drainage Districts 2 & 51 & Buena Vista Cnty. Bd. of Supervisors & Sac Cnty. Bd. of Supervisors as Jt. Trs. of Drainage Districts 19, 890 N.W.2d 50 (Iowa 2017).

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Bd. of Water Works Trs. of the City of Des Moines, Iowa v. Sac Cnty. Bd. of Supervisors, as Tr. of Drainage Districts 32, 42, 65, 79, 81, 83, 86, & Calhoun Cnty. Bd. of Supervisors & Sac Cnty. Bd. of Supervisors as Jt. Trs. of Drainage Districts 2 & 51 & Buena Vista Cnty. Bd. of Supervisors & Sac Cnty. Bd. of Supervisors as Jt. Trs. of Drainage Districts 19, 890 N.W.2d 50 (Iowa 2017). · cites it 8× “Iowa Code section 657.3 provides criminal penalties related to nuisances: Whoever is convicted of erecting, causing, or continuing a public or common nuisance as provided in this chapter, or at common law .”

Thompson v. Kaczinski, 774 N.W.2d 829 (Iowa 2009). · cites it 4× “" Section 657.3 provides a person found guilty of causing a public nuisance "shall be guilty of an aggravated misdemeanor.”

City of Eagle Grove v. Cahalan Investments, LLC, 904 N.W.2d 552 (Iowa 2017). · cites it 8× “Iowa Code § 657.3 . Chapter 657 defines nuisance as “[wjhatever is injurious to health, indecent, or unreasonably offensive to the senses, or an obstruction to the free use of property, so as essentially to unreasonably interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or…”

City of Iowa City v. Iowa Dist. Court for Johnson Cnty., 456 N.W.2d 178 (Iowa 1990). · cites it 4× “” Iowa Code § 657.3 . See Jasper County v. Sparham, 125 Iowa 464, 466 , 101 N.”

Bd. of Water Works Trs. of the City of Des Moines, Iowa v. Sac Cnty. Bd. of Supervisors, as Tr. of Drainage Districts 32, 42, 65, 79, 81, 83, 86, & Calhoun Cnty. Bd. of Supervisors & Sac Cnty. Bd. of Supervisors as Jt. Trs. of Drainage Districts 2 & 51 & Buena Vista Cnty. Bd. of Supervisors & Sac Cnty. Bd. of Supervisors as Jt. Trs. of Drainage Districts 19 (Iowa 2017). · cites it 4× “Iowa Code section 657.3 provides criminal penalties related to nuisances: Whoever is convicted of erecting, causing, or continuing a public or common nuisance as provided in this chapter, or at common law .”

Amended April 11, 2017 Bd. of Water Works Trs. of the City of Des Moines, Iowa v. Sac Cnty. Bd. of Supervisors, as Tr. of Drainage Districts 32, 42, 65, 79, 81, 83, 86, & Calhoun Cnty. Bd. of Supervisors & Sac Cnty. Bd. of Supervisors as Jt. Trs. of Drainage Districts 2 & 51 & Buena Vista Cnty. Bd. of Supervisors & Sac Cnty. Bd. of Supervisors as Jt. Trs. (Iowa 2017). · cites it 4× “Iowa Code section 657.3 provides criminal penalties related to nuisances: Whoever is convicted of erecting, causing, or continuing a public or common nuisance as provided in this chapter, or at common law .”

Charles W. Thompson & Karyl J. Thompson Vs. James F. Kaczinski & Michelle K. Lockwood (Iowa 2009). · cites it 2× “” Section 657.3 provides a person found guilty of causing a public nuisance “shall be guilty of an aggravated misdemeanor.”

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