(A) Whenever it is deemed that a public nuisance exists, notice to the parties as required in division (B) shall be issued. The notice shall:
(1) Be in writing;
(2) Specify the public nuisance and its location;
(3) Order the public nuisance to be abated; and
(4) Advise that 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 governing body of the city, or the public nuisance will be 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, and, if the owner is not the occupant thereof, to the occupant. If receipt of notice shall be personally refused, notice shall be served by attachment to the offending objects, or to any one offending object within 100 feet of others, and at a conspicuous place at the entrance of the premises. If the nuisance is a junked motor vehicle, the notice shall also issue to the last identifiable owner of same, if not the owner or occupant of the premises. If the junked motor vehicle is on public property, notice to the vehicle owner only is required. If the vehicle owner is reasonably undeterminable in the case of a nuisance on either public or private property, notice to him shall be given by attaching the notice to a vehicle no less than five days before action is to be taken. Where a junked appliance is found on public property no notice shall be required.
(1997 Code, § 92.20)