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<section article="gen" article_name="Environment" number="10-202" title_number="10" title_name="Nuisance Control" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Nuisance Abatement">
  <level label="a">
    <text>On the written complaint of 2 physicians or of at least 3 persons who claim to be affected by the condition, the Secretary shall investigate any complaint that any of the following is in a condition that injures any adjacent property or that is dangerous to human health:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Any watercourse, well, spring, open ditch, gutter, cesspool, drain, outhouse, pigpen, or other place.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Any accumulation or deposit of offensive or noxious matter.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Any house, building, trades establishment, or manufacturing place.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Any water in which mosquito larvae breed.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>If the Secretary finds that the condition of the place or thing investigated may injure any adjacent property or may injure the life or health of any individual, the place or thing is in a state of nuisance and the Secretary shall serve a written notice to the person who is causing the nuisance, ordering the person to abate the nuisance within a time specified in the notice.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The notice shall be served:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>On the person who is causing the nuisance; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>If the person who is causing the nuisance cannot be found, on the owner or occupant of the property where the nuisance exists.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Secretary may file a complaint in the circuit court for the county where the nuisance exists if:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The person served with the notice fails to comply with the requirements of the notice; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Although the person served complies with the requirements of the notice, the nuisance is likely to recur on the same property.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A complaint filed under this subsection may seek a court order requiring the person served with the notice to do any or all of the following:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>To comply with the requirements of the Secretary’s abatement notice.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>To abate the nuisance within a time specified in the order.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>To prevent the nuisance from recurring.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
