A. Cleanup Required: If, by erosion, vehicle tire or otherwise, soil shall be carried from private property in the City and shall accumulate on the City streets or sidewalks or in the City sewers or established streams and drainage ditches located in the City, and if such accumulation of soil is by its presence dangerous to the persons or properties of others or interferes with the safe use or efficient operation or maintenance of said streets, sidewalks, sewers, streams and drainage ditches, the owner of such property, and the permit holder for such property, if there be one, shall cause such accumulation of soil to be cleaned from said streets, sidewalks, sewers, streams and drainage ditches as directed by the City. Failure to take corrective action shall constitute a violation of this chapter.
Anytime the Construction Services Administrator, Code Enforcement Officer, or Engineering Services Administrator determines that the presence of such accumulation of soil is hazardous to life and limb or materially disruptive of the normal use of such streets, sidewalks, sewers, streams or drainage ditches, they may authorize the immediate cleanup by the City as outlined in section 10-11-9 of this chapter.
B. Serving Of Cleanup Orders: Cleanup orders issued pursuant to this section shall be in writing and shall be served in a manner prescribed for the service of civil process by the Iowa Rules of Civil Procedure; except, however, such an order to a permit holder for the property may also be given verbally by the Construction Services Administrator, Code Enforcement Officer or Engineering Services Administrator, either in person or by telephone call, to the permit holder or to a person designated by the permit holder to receive such notices from the building official, or to a family member, employee or associate of such permit holder or designee as is found at the addresses or phone numbers of the permit holder or designee listed on the excavation permit. (Ord. 1040, 6-22-2017)
C. Each Day A Separate Offense: Each day a property owner or permit holder remains in violation of a cleanup order given pursuant to this section shall constitute a new and separate violation of this chapter. (Ord. 861, 10-5-2006)