Nothing which is done or maintained under the express authority of a statute can be deemed a nuisance.
Cal. Civ. Code § 3482
GENERAL PRINCIPLES
Applied in 30 court decisions — leading case 6 Cal. 3d 920 - Nestle v. City of Santa Monica (1972)
Most recently applied in 3500 Sepulveda, LLC v. Rreef America Reit II Corp Bbb (November 2020)
Enacted 1872.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.