The NYPD wanted the New York City Council to give them expanded powers under the Nuisance Abatement Law, which would enable them to close businesses where violent crimes had been committed, as well as businesses that sell fake I . D . cards.
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Officials called the closing unusual because it was rare, perhaps unprecedented, to use the nuisance abatement law against an establishment as big as the Jerome Motel, a bare concrete rectangle of 37 rooms surrounding a parking lot just off the Cross Bronx Expressway.
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To reduce crime in Suitland Manor, RA is working with the Prince George's County Police Department and the Office of the State s Attorney through their Asset Forfeiture Unit and the Nuisance Abatement Program to eliminate illegal drug activity in the Suitland Manor apartments.
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Two fire marshals, accompanied by two Metropolitan Police officers who said they were with the Nuisance Abatement Task Force, appeared shortly after 8 : 30 a . m . at the headquarters, where protesters had been holding workshops in nonviolent tactics and making other preparations.
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Except for a yellow sign above the front door, referring to a " Nuisance Abatement Program, " his building at 425 E . 135th St . in the South Bronx is unremarkable looking, a four-story red brick tenement above the Major Deegan Expressway.
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Graham's pending bill would provide federal financing for local initiatives to combat Ecstasy use, giving priority to communities " passing ordinances restricting rave clubs " and " seizing lands under nuisance abatement laws to make new restrictions on an establishment's use ."
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The Limelight was the first major nightclub to be shut down under the Police Department's Civil Enforcement Initiative, which began as part of a community policing effort in 1991 and uses department lawyers to close drug dens, problem bars, brothels and other locations under the nuisance abatement section of the city administrative code.
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However, it is a defense to a nuisance abatement action against a medical marijuana dispensary that the dispensary is operating as a nonprofit mutual benefit corporation and is not making a profit from distributing medical marijuana; thus, summary judgment is improper when there remains a disputed issue of triable fact on whether the dispensary is profit-making or nonprofit.
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A letter from the department's legal office to a community group last summer noted that " the situation at 2239 and 2241 Creston Avenue is troubling, " but that because " the overwhelming majority of the incidents have occurred outside the buildings, " they were " not suitable for Nuisance Abatement enforcement " _ in other words, the building could not be shut.
