§ 12.05 ACCESS TO PRIVATE PROPERTY AND RESPONSIBILITY TO ABATE PUBLIC NUISANCE OR PUBLIC HEALTH NUISANCE.

   The owner or other interested party of private property on which a public nuisance or public health nuisance has been declared must, upon the demand of a public officer , permit access to all portions of the private property and structures thereon at any reasonable time for the purposes of inspection, remediation and abatement as often as the public officer deems necessary and shall exhibit and allow the copying of all records necessary to ascertain compliance with Chapter 12, Article II, Division A of city code. Any public nuisance or public health nuisance upon private property shall be removed and abated by the owner or other interested party at their own cost after notice, as provided in § 12.04. If such notice is not complied with, the city shall cause removal or abatement of such public nuisance or public health nuisance, and the cost thereof shall be charged against the private property in the manner provided in § 12.06 and collected in the manner set forth in § 1.20 of this city code.

(1958 Code, § 174.02) (Ord. 22, passed 9-1-1953; recodified by Ord. 98-53, passed 11-16-1998; Ord. 2006-13, passed 4-17-2006; Ord. 2013-6, passed 3-18-2013; Ord. 2016-24, passed 10-24-2016; Ord. 2019-26, passed 5-20-2019; Ord. 2019-46, passed 12-2-2019)