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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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1.14.160   Collections of assessment by recordation of administrative declaration levying assessment - Recordation of administrative declaration.
   Where the administrative hearing officer has adopted an administrative declaration levying an assessment for city abatement costs and has provided in such administrative declaration for the collection of such abatement costs by recording the administrative declaration against the property on which the city abatement work was performed, the director, promptly after completing service of the administrative declaration in the manner hereinbefore required by this chapter, shall attach an affidavit or declaration attesting to such service to a certified copy of the administrative declaration, and shall cause such certified copy of the resolution, with the declaration or affidavit attached, to be recorded with the Butte County Clerk-Recorder in the official records of the county of Butte. After the date of such recordation, the assessment provided for by such administrative declaration shall constitute a lien against the property upon which city abatement work was performed and shall have the same force, effect and priority as a judgment lien.
(Ord. 1891 (part), Ord. 2012 §3 (part), Ord. 2364 §14, Ord. 2592 §1 (part))
1.14.170   Collection of assessment by recordation of administrative declaration levying assessment - Commencement of foreclosure action.
   When directed to do so by the city council, the city attorney shall commence an action in a court of appropriate jurisdiction to foreclose the assessment lien for city abatement work which was established by recordation of the administrative declaration levying the assessment for such abatement work in the manner hereinbefore provided by this chapter. In such action the city shall be entitled to recover any costs incurred for the purpose of processing, serving or recording such administrative declaration.
(Ord. 1891 (part), Ord. 2592 §1 (part))
1.14.180   Collection of assessment by recordation of administrative declaration levying assessment - Release of assessment lien.
   At such time as the lien created by recordation of the administrative declaration levying an assessment for city abatement costs is discharged or satisfied, either through payment of the lien, or by sale of the property encumbered by the lien at the conclusion of a foreclosure action, the director shall promptly cause a release of the lien, in a notice of discharge form approved by the city attorney that shall include a copy of the administrative declaration, to be recorded with the Butte County Clerk-Recorder in the official records of the county of Butte.
(Ord. 1891 (part), Ord. 2012 §3 (part), Ord. 2364 §15, Ord. 2592 §1 (part))
1.14.190   Collection of assessment on county tax rolls - Requests for inclusion of assessment on county tax rolls.
   Where the administrative hearing officer has adopted an administrative declaration levying a special assessment for city abatement costs and has provided in such administrative declaration for the collection of such assessment on the county tax rolls, the director, after serving the administrative declaration in the manner hereinbefore required by this chapter, shall promptly transmit a certified copy of the administrative declaration to the finance director who shall immediately forward same to the Butte County Auditor-Controller with a request that the assessment levied by such administrative declaration be added to the county tax rolls in the manner provided for by Section 38773.5 of the Government Code. Thereafter all laws applicable to the levy, collection and enforcement of property tax shall be applicable to such special assessment.
(Ord. 1891 (part), Ord. 2012 §3 (part), Ord. 2113 §1, Ord. 2364 §16, Ord. 2592 §1 (part))
1.14.200   Collection of assessment on county tax rolls - Payment of assessment.
   If the assessee should pay to the city the full amount of an assessment levied for city abatement costs, together with any interest or penalties thereon, after the date the assessment is added to the county tax rolls, the city finance director shall promptly cause such assessment to be removed from the tax rolls.
(Ord. 1891 (part), Ord. 2113 §1)
1.14.210   Summary nuisance abatement.
   Where the director determines that the nuisance conditions exist on real property located in the city, that the owner of such property is unavailable or has failed or refused to abate such nuisance after having been personally served with a request to abate same, that the nuisance constitutes a substantial and immediate threat to the public health or safety, and that any further delay in abating the nuisance would pose an unreasonable risk of harm to persons or property, the director may cause the nuisance to be summarily abated in the manner hereinbefore provided by this chapter without a nuisance abatement order issued by an administrative hearing officer in the manner hereinbefore required by this chapter. In the event the director causes a nuisance to be summarily abated in the manner authorized by this section, the director shall prepare a written report setting forth the costs of abatement and justification for such summary abatement procedures. The director shall forward such report to the city manager no later than ten days after completion of all nuisance abatement work. To recover abatement costs incurred pursuant to a summary nuisance abatement, the director shall follow the relevant procedures contained in Sections 1.14.110 through 1.14.200, and the absence of a nuisance abatement order shall not preclude the director from commencing assessment proceedings pursuant to Section 1.14.110.
(Ord. 1891 (part), Ord. 2012 §3 (part), Ord. 2364 §17, Ord. 2592 §1 (part))
1.14.220   Civil action to abate nuisance.
   Nothing in this chapter shall be deemed to preclude the city attorney from commencing a civil action to abate a nuisance in the manner provided for by the laws of this state as an alternative to the administrative nuisance abatement proceeding provided for by this chapter.
(Ord. 1891 (part))
1.14.230   Penalty.
   A.   An owner is deemed to have violated this chapter each day that a nuisance is permitted to continue following the issuance of a nuisance abatement order. The following administrative fines may be imposed for violations of this chapter in accordance with Chapter 1.15 of this code, except that the below fee schedule shall control over any conflicting fee schedule that may exist under Section 1.15.050 of this code:
      1.   A $0.00 administrative fine if the owner of the property on which a nuisance is alleged to exist fails to abate the nuisance within 10 days of a nuisance abatement order being issued, except that a frequent violator may be fined $100.00;
      2.   A $100.00 administrative fine if the owner of the property on which a nuisance is alleged to exist fails to abate the nuisance within between 11 and 20 days of a nuisance abatement order being issued, except that a frequent violator may be fined $200.00;
      3.   A $200.00 administrative fine if the owner of the property on which a nuisance is alleged to exist fails to abate the nuisance within between 21 and 30 days of a nuisance abatement order being issued, except that a frequent violator may be fined $500.00;
      4.   A $400.00 administrative fine if the owner of the property on which a nuisance is alleged to exist fails to abate the nuisance within between 31 and 40 days of a nuisance abatement order being issued, except that a frequent violator may be fined $500.00;
      5.   For each calendar day interval following the 40th day from which a nuisance abatement order has been issued, the owner may be fined an administrative fine of $100.00 for failure to abate the nuisance;
      6.   For the purposes of this section, a “frequent violator” is a property owner who has been issued more than one nuisance abatement order in the preceding 12 months for violating Chapter 1.14.
   B.   Any person who removes or defaces a proposed nuisance abatement order or other notice which is posted in the manner provided for by this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for a period not exceeding six months, or by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by both.
(Ord. 1891 (part), Ord. 2592 §1 (part))
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