(A) When any obstruction hereinbefore prohibited shall exist, the City Engineer shall order removal of the same at once or the City Engineer may, and if it be a building or other structure erected or maintained in part upon an adjacent lot, the Engineer must notify the owner of the adjacent lot to remove the obstruction. The notice shall be served:
(1) Personally, or by certified mail, or by posting a written copy thereof on the premises; or
(2) If the lot be unoccupied and the owner be a nonresident of the city, then either by certified mail or by one publication in the official newspaper of the city.
(B) If the owner fails to remove the obstruction within three days from date of notice, the City Engineer shall order removal of the obstruction, and if the obstruction be a building, fence or other structure, the material thereof shall be placed on the premises owned or occupied by the party responsible hereunder for maintaining the obstruction. The City Engineer shall immediately report to the City Council whatever expense is incurred in the name of the city by any such removal, and the person maintaining or charged with the duty of removing the obstruction shall be held liable to the city for the amount so expended. The amount shall be recovered by action in court or the City Council may, at its discretion, assess the sum as a special tax against the lot or parcel of ground in the manner as provided for by law for special taxes. The notice in this section provided for is only necessary before removal of a building, fence or other structure by the City Engineer, but not necessary as a basis for prosecution and conviction under the provisions of this subchapter.
(Prior Code, § 94.003) (Ord. 3165, passed 6-1-1987)
Statutory reference:
Authorization, see Neb. Rev. Stat. § 16-207