(A) If the owner, occupant, or agent in charge of any lot, building, or other premises, or the person responsible for the maintenance of a nuisance, fails to abate the nuisance ten days after a notice to abate has been mailed by ordinary first-class mail and certified mail, return receipt requested, to the last known address of the person or persons, the City Attorney's office may, with consent of the Mayor, bring legal action to obtain abatement of the nuisance.
(B) In the event legal action to abate a nuisance is commenced on behalf of the city, the City Attorney shall request that the court enter the order as is appropriate to expeditiously and completely abate the nuisance and that the order be of a continuing nature, permanently enjoining the defendant from continuing, maintaining, renewing, or restoring a judgment against the defendant(s) for the cost incurred by the city in abating the nuisance conditions.
(1973 Code, § 4-406) (Ord. 449, passed 12-1-1977; Ord. 693, passed 7-8-1999; Ord. 709, passed 6-7-2001)