(A) Whenever the enforcement officer shall deem a public nuisance to exist, he shall issue a notice to the parties hereinafter stated. Such notice shall:
(1) Be in writing.
(2) Specify the public nuisance and its location.
(3) Order the public nuisance to be abated.
(4) Advise the party that he has five days from the date of service of the notice to abate the nuisance or to make a written demand for a hearing before the City Council, before the public nuisance is removed and abated by the city.
(B) For public nuisances on private property, notice shall be by certified mail, return receipt requested, or by personal service to the owner of the premises, or, if the owner is not the occupant thereof, to the occupant. If receipt of notice is personally refused, notice shall issue by attachment to the offending object and at a conspicuous place at the entrance of the premises. If the nuisance is a junked motor vehicle such notice shall also issue to the last identifiable owner of same, if not the owner or occupant of the premises.
(C) If the junked motor vehicle is on public property, notice to the vehicle owner only is required.
(D) If the identity of the vehicle owner is reasonably undeterminable, in the case of a nuisance, on either public or private property, notice shall be given by attaching such notice to the vehicle no less than five days before action is to be taken.
(E) Where a junked appliance is found on public property, no notice shall be required.
(F) A dated return of the notice shall be made to the enforcement officer by the deliverer.
(Ord. 70-2, passed 5-13-70)