Bill > HB2168

This bill amends existing Arizona law regarding public nuisances, specifically focusing on actions to stop or prevent them. The key change is that now, for the Attorney General to bring an action to abate, enjoin, or prevent a public nuisance, they must first obtain the consent of the board of supervisors in addition to the existing requirement of the county attorney or city attorney being able to initiate such actions. The bill also clarifies the definition of an "obscene" item in the context of public nuisances by inserting the word "obscene" and removing redundant phrasing, while maintaining the two-thousand-foot buffer zone around schools, public parks, and residential districts where such items cannot be sold, offered for sale, transferred, traded, or disseminated. A public nuisance is defined as something that is injurious to health, indecent, offensive to the senses, or obstructs property use, interfering with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property by a community or a significant number of people, or unlawfully obstructs public passage on waterways or public areas like parks and streets.

Agriculture and Natural Resources, Justice

https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/BillOverview/83828