Any person who erects, establishes, maintains, uses, owns or leases any building or place used for the purpose of lewdness, assignation or prostitution shall be guilty of maintaining a nuisance, and the building, the place and the ground upon which such lewdness, assignation or prostitution is conducted, permitted or carried on, including the furniture, fixtures, musical instruments and movable property used in conducting or maintaining any such place, are also declared to be nuisances.