Nuisance described and considered subject to an action
Applied in 15 court decisions — leading case Lindsey v. DeGroot (2009)
Most recently applied in City of Gary v. Smith & Wesson Corp. (May 2019)
As added by P.L.2-2002, SEC.15.
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.
Sec. 6. Whatever is:
(1) injurious to health;
(2) indecent;
(3) offensive to the senses; or
(4) an obstruction to the free use of property;
so as essentially to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property, is a nuisance, and the subject of an action.
Official source: Indiana General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Indiana statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.