Chapter 8.10
NUISANCES

Sections:

8.10.010    Nuisances affecting public health and welfare.

8.10.020    Nuisances – Notices and order to abate – Assessment.

8.10.010 Nuisances affecting public health and welfare.

The following are hereby declared and deemed to be nuisances affecting public health and welfare:

A. All stagnant ponds or pools of water.

B. The burning within the City limits of any substance, the burning of which generates or creates any disagreeable, noxious or unwholesome smell or odor.

C. All articles or things whatever caused, kept, maintained or permitted by any person to the injury, annoyance or inconvenience of the public or of any neighborhood.

D. All rank grass (grass more than six inches tall), weeds or other vegetation that are more than six inches tall, dead trees or brush.

E. All other trades, professions, acts, omissions of acts, or conditions existing in the City which are deemed to be dangerous to the public health by the Board of Health of this City. (Ord. 2257 § 15; Ord. 1365 § 1. Code 1990 § 9-201)

8.10.020 Nuisances – Notices and order to abate – Assessment.

Whenever any citizen or member of the Board of Health of the City shall file with the City Clerk a written statement that any nuisance, describing the same and location thereof, is a menace and dangerous to the health of the inhabitants of the City or of any neighborhood, family or resident of the City, or upon the City making said determination by resolution, the City Clerk shall forthwith issue a notice requiring the owner, occupant or agent of the premises to remove and abate from said premises the thing or things therein described as a nuisance within the time, not exceeding 10 days, to be specified in said notice. The notice shall state that, before the expiration of the waiting period, the recipient may request a hearing before the Governing Body or its designated representative. Said notice shall be served by the Chief of Police or other Police Officer by delivering a copy of said notice to said owner, occupant or agent of said property or, if the property is unoccupied and the owner thereof a nonresident, then by mailing a notice by registered mail to his/her last known post office address. If the owner, occupant or agent shall fail to comply with the requirements and terms of said notice, the City shall proceed to have the thing or things described in said notice as a nuisance removed and abated from said lot or parcel of ground. The City shall give notice to the owner or agent by registered mail of the total cost of such abatement or removal incurred by the City. Such notice also shall state that payment of such cost is due and payable within 30 days following receipt of such notice. If the cost of such removal or abatement is not paid within the 30-day period, the cost of removal or abatement shall be charged against the lot or parcel of ground on which such nuisances were located, and the City Clerk shall, at the time of certifying other taxes to the County Clerk, certify the costs of abating such nuisance to the County Clerk for extension on the tax rolls of the County against said lot or parcel of ground, to be collected by the County Treasurer and paid to the City as other special assessments are collected and paid. (Ord. 2267 § 15. Code 1990 § 9-202)