A. Nuisance Determined: Whenever any nuisance shall be reported to or investigated and determined by the police, fire, or building officers or inspectors, notice shall be given to the owner or person in control of the property or premises involved and to the appropriate City officials whose functions include the abatement of such nuisances.
B. Notice To Abate:
1. Whenever any building official or inspector or any police or fire officer determines that a nuisance exists on any private property or premises, the proper City official shall cause a written notice to be served upon the owner or person in control of such property or premises who is causing, permitting or maintaining such nuisance, which notice shall give the person served ten (10) days from the date of service of the notice to abate the nuisance. Such notice shall be a means of personal service of a copy of the complaint or by certified or registered mail of a copy of the complaint. Personal service shall be by any authorized inspector from the City or by any police officer of the Police Department or any person authorized by law to make personal service.
2. Such notice shall fairly apprise such person of the nature of the nuisance, his/her duty to abate or remove the nuisance within the time provided therein, the penalty for failure to abate the same and shall state that, if said nuisance is abated by the City, liability for necessary expenses to be incurred shall accrue as provided in Section 4-1-5 of this Chapter.
C. Time Limits: It is hereby declared the duty of any person determined to have created, caused, erected, maintained or permitted a nuisance to exist within the City to discontinue and abate such nuisance within ten (10) days, or such other time period as may be specified in the notice, from the time he/she receives written notice thereof.
D. Abatement By City: Whenever any nuisance is not abated by the owner, lessee or person in control of the premises or property affected within the time provided by notice, the proper City officer shall cause the abatement or removal of such nuisance.
E. Summary Abatement By City: Whenever any nuisance: 1) constitutes or is deemed to be an imminent or immediate danger to the public health or safety, or 2) exists on public property, the proper City officer shall cause such nuisance to be summarily and immediately abated and removed, regardless of any ten (10) day or other time period specified by notice to the person responsible therefor; provided, however that in situation 1) above, such officer shall have first applied for and obtained the written permission of the Mayor for such summary abatement. (1997 Code)