(a) No person shall cause or permit garbage, rubbish, tree or bush branches or trimmings, brush, cast-off or discarded articles, litter, junk, materials which are ready for destruction, or which have been collected for salvage or conversion to some other use, to be stored, kept or placed outside any structure, or on any premises, except where permitted by zoning ordinances.
(b) Upon receipt of information that subsection (a) hereof is being violated, the Code Official shall cause a written notice to be served upon the owner, lessee, agent or tenant having charge of such land, notifying him that the offending articles and/or materials must be removed within ten days after service of such notice.
(d) If the person to whom a notice is directed fails to comply with the requirements of the notice, the Code Official shall cause such offending articles and/or materials to be removed from the premises and may employ the necessary labor to perform such task. All expenses shall be paid out of funds appropriated by Council. The expenses shall consist of the following:
(1) All direct costs for the removal of such items; plus
(2) The costs for preparing and serving all notices; plus
(3) An administrative fee in the amount set forth in 1404.38.
(e) In the event that the owner or other appropriate person fails to pay such expenses within thirty days after being notified in writing, by regular U.S. mail, of the amount thereof by the Code Official, the expenses set forth in subsection (d) hereof may be collected using one or more of the following methods, provided, however, that the expenses may only be collected once:
(1) Such expenses may be submitted by the Code Official to the County Auditor and placed upon the tax duplicate for collection as a special assessment and thereupon shall be collected as other taxes and assessments; or
(2) The Director of Law is authorized to bring suit and take other necessary legal action to collect all such expenses.
(f) The remedies provided in this section shall be in addition to the penalty provided in Section 1404.99 and any other remedy allowed by law.
(Ord. 18-36. Passed 5-22-18.)