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Chico, CA Code of Ordinances
CHICO MUNICIPAL CODE
THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF CHICO
Title 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS
Chapter 1.01 CODE ADOPTION1
Chapter 1.04 GENERAL PROVISIONS
Chapter 1.08 CITY SEAL2
Chapter 1.12 RIGHT OF ENTRY FOR INSPECTION
Chapter 1.14 NUISANCE ABATEMENT
1.14.010 Purpose.
1.14.020 Findings.
1.14.025 Administration of nuisance abatement procedures.
1.14.030 Nuisance defined.
1.14.040 Manner of serving notices.
1.14.050 Request to abate nuisance.
1.14.060 Nuisance abatement order - Initiation of proceedings.
1.14.070 Nuisance abatement order - Notice of hearing.
1.14.080 Nuisance abatement order - Hearing on proposed order.
1.14.090 Nuisance abatement order - Action on proposed order.
1.14.100 Nuisance abatement work performed by or on behalf of the city.
1.14.110 Assessment for city abatement costs - Initiation of assessment proceedings.
1.14.120 Assessment for city abatement costs - Notice of hearing on assessment.
1.14.130 Assessment for city abatement cost - Hearing on proposed assessment.
1.14.140 Assessment for city abatement costs - Adoption of administrative declaration levying assessment.
1.14.150 Assessment for city abatement costs - Service of administrative declaration levying assessment.
1.14.160 Collections of assessment by recordation of administrative declaration levying assessment - Recordation of administrative declaration.
1.14.170 Collection of assessment by recordation of administrative declaration levying assessment - Commencement of foreclosure action.
1.14.180 Collection of assessment by recordation of administrative declaration levying assessment - Release of assessment lien.
1.14.190 Collection of assessment on county tax rolls - Requests for inclusion of assessment on county tax rolls.
1.14.200 Collection of assessment on county tax rolls - Payment of assessment.
1.14.210 Summary nuisance abatement.
1.14.220 Civil action to abate nuisance.
1.14.230 Penalty.
1.14.240 Abatement of public nuisance on public property owned by the city.
Chapter 1.15 ADMINISTRATIVE CITATIONS
Chapter 1.16 NOTICES OF NON-COMPLIANCE
Chapter 1.24 ARRESTS
Chapter 1.26 JUDICIAL REVIEW OF ADMINISTRATIVE DECISIONS.
Chapter 1.30 CITY ELECTIONS
Chapter 1.40 ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW GUIDELINES
TITLE 1 FOOTNOTES
Title 2 ADMINISTRATION AND PERSONNEL
Title 3 REVENUE AND FINANCE
Title 4 (RESERVED)
Title 5 BUSINESS REGULATIONS1
Title 6 (RESERVED)
Title 7 ANIMALS
Title 8 HEALTH AND SANITATION1
Title 9 PUBLIC PEACE, SAFETY AND MORALS
Title 10 VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC
Title 11 AIRPORT1
Title 12 PARKS
Title 13 (RESERVED)
Title 14 STREETS AND SIDEWALKS
Title 15 UTILITY SERVICES
Title 16 BUILDINGS AND CONSTRUCTION1
Title 17 (RESERVED)
Title 18 SUBDIVISIONS
Title 19 LAND USE AND DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS1
Title 2R ADMINISTRATION AND PERSONNEL AND EMPLOYEE RELATIONS RULES
Title 3R REVENUE AND FINANCE RULES AND PROCEDURES
Title 5R BUSINESS RULES AND REGULATIONS
Title 8R SOLID WASTE COLLECTION RULES
Title 10R VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC RULES AND PROCEDURES
Title 11R CHICO MUNICIPAL AIRPORT RULES AND REGULATIONS1
Title 12R RULES AND REGULATIONS OF BIDWELL PARK AND OTHER PARKS AND PLAYGROUNDS1
Title 14R BUILDING IN STREETS, SIDEWALKS AND PUBLIC PLACES
Title 15R WATER AND SEWERS
Title 16R BUILDING STANDARDS
Title 18R DESIGN CRITERIA AND IMPROVEMENT STANDARDS1
TABLES
Chico, CA Comprehensive Ordinance Table
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1.14.110   Assessment for city abatement costs - Initiation of assessment proceedings.
   Upon completion of the work necessary to abate a nuisance following the failure of the owner of the property on which the nuisance is located to abate such nuisance within the time prescribed by a nuisance abatement order approved by the administrative hearing officer and served on such property owner in the manner provided for by this chapter, the director shall promptly transmit a copy of the record of any abatement costs prepared by the director in connection with such work to the city clerk. Upon receipt of such record of city abatement costs, the city clerk shall schedule a hearing before the administrative hearing officer at the first date the administrative hearing officer is available following the twentieth day after receipt of such record for the purpose of confirming such abatement costs and levying an assessment in the amount of the abatement costs against the owner of the property upon which such abatement work was performed. The administrative hearing officer shall be selected by the city manager. The administrative hearing officer selected by the city manager shall be the city manager or another designee. However, the city manager shall not designate the director as the administrative hearing officer.
(Ord. 1891 (part), Ord. 2012 §3 (part), Ord. 2364 §9, Ord. 2592 §1 (part))
1.14.120   Assessment for city abatement costs - Notice of hearing on assessment.
   At least ten days prior to the scheduled date of a public hearing before the administrative hearing officer on assessment for city abatement costs, the director shall cause a notice of the time and place of such hearing and a copy of the record of city abatement costs which was prepared by the director to be served on the owner of the property on which abatement work was performed and for which such abatement costs were incurred.
(Ord. 1891 (part), Ord. 2012 §3 (part), Ord. 2364 §10, Ord. 2592 §1 (part))
1.14.130   Assessment for city abatement cost - Hearing on proposed assessment.
   At the time and place set for the hearing on an assessment for city abatement costs, the administrative hearing officer shall consider the record of city abatement costs prepared by the director, as well as all relevant evidence bearing on the reasonableness of the city abatement costs, including, in particular, any protest to such abatement costs made by the owner of the property upon which abatement work was performed and for which such abatement costs were incurred. At the conclusion of the hearing, the administrative hearing officer shall determine whether the abatement work performed by the director was necessary to abate the nuisance required by the nuisance abatement order issued by the administrative hearing officer served on the owner of the property upon which such nuisance was located in the manner provided for by this chapter, and whether the costs of such nuisance work was reasonable, given all of the circumstances of the case.
(Ord. 1891 (part), Ord. 2012 §3 (part), Ord. 2364 §11, Ord. 2592 §1 (part))
1.14.140   Assessment for city abatement costs - Adoption of administrative declaration levying assessment.
   After considering city abatement costs at a public hearing in the manner hereinbefore provided by this chapter, the administrative hearing officer shall, by administrative declaration, confirm such costs or any part thereof found by the administrative hearing officer to be reasonable, and shall levy an assessment against the owner of the property on which the abatement work was performed in the amount of such costs. In addition to levying an assessment against the owner of the property upon which city abatement work was performed in an amount of the city's abatement costs, the administrative declaration shall set forth the date of the nuisance abatement order and a brief description of the abatement work performed by or on behalf of the city, shall describe the property upon which such work was performed by legal description, assessor's parcel number, and where possible by a street address, shall contain the name and current address of the owner of such property, shall state that payment of the assessment shall be due immediately upon service of the administrative declaration on the owner of the property in the manner hereinafter provided by this chapter, and shall state the assessment is being imposed by the city as a nuisance abatement lien against the property. Moreover, in its administrative declaration by the administrative hearing officer shall provide for collection of the assessment in the event of nonpayment either by recordation of the administrative declaration in the manner provided for by Section 38773.1 of the California Government Code, or by including the assessment on the county tax rolls in the manner provided for by Section 38773.5 of the Government Code. Following adoption of the administrative declaration, the city clerk shall immediately transmit two certified copies of the administrative declaration to the director.
(Ord. 1891 (part), Ord. 2012 §3 (part), Ord 2364 §12, Ord. 2592 §1 (part))
1.14.150   Assessment for city abatement costs - Service of administrative declaration levying assessment.
   Following receipt of an administrative declaration levying an assessment for city abatement costs, the director shall cause the administrative declaration to be served on the owner of the property upon which city abatement work was performed in the following manner:
   A.   If the administrative declaration levying the assessment provides for collection of the assessment by recordation of the administrative declaration against the property upon which city abatement work was performed, the director shall cause notice of and a copy of the administrative declaration to be served on the owner of record of the property on which the nuisance was maintained, based on the last equalized assessment roll or the supplemental assessment roll, whichever is more current, and in the same manner as required by law for the service of a summons in a civil action, as set forth in Article 3, Chapter 4, Title 5 of Part 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure (commencing with Section 415.10); provided, however, that in the event the owner of record of the property upon which the city abatement work was performed cannot be found after a diligent search for same, the director shall serve the notice of and copy of administrative declaration by posting a copy thereof in a conspicuous place upon such property for a period of 10 days, and by publishing a copy of the notice of and a copy of administrative declaration in a newspaper of general circulation in the county of Butte in the manner provided for by Section 6062 of the Government Code.
   B.   If the administrative declaration levying the assessment provides for collection of a special assessment by inclusion of the assessment on the county tax rolls, the director shall cause notice of and a certified copy of the administrative declaration to be served on the owner of the property upon which the city abatement work was performed by certified mail, to the property owner, if the property owner’s identity can be determined from the records of the Butte County Clerk-Recorder. Such notice shall be given at the time of imposing the assessment and shall specify that the property may be sold after three years by the Butte County Treasurer-Tax Collector for unpaid delinquent assessments.
(Ord. 1891 (part), Ord. 2012 §3 (part), Ord, 2364 §13, Ord. 2592 §1 (part))
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