ARTICLE III: VACANT LOTS, PREMISES AND LAND
Section
   10.301   Accumulations prohibited
   10.302   Same; summons for failure to maintain lots
   10.303   Same; how summons given
   10.304   Same; failure to clean declared a misdemeanor; penalty
   10.305   Slum and blighted areas
Editor’s note:
   This authority derives from S.C. Code § 5-7-80 and generally accepted municipal practices.
§ 10.301  ACCUMULATIONS PROHIBITED.
   It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to maintain or to permit to be maintained any vacant lots, improved or unimproved premises or land upon which grass, weeds, undergrowth, trash, garbage, offal, stagnant water, building materials, glass, wood, junk or other matter deleterious to good health and public sanitation which is permitted or caused to accumulate in any manner which is or may become a nuisance causing injury to the health or welfare of the residents or the public in the vicinity or causing injury to neighboring property.
(Prior Code, § 10.301)
§ 10.302  SAME; SUMMONS FOR FAILURE TO MAINTAIN LOTS.
   The Chief of Police is hereby authorized to summon the owner of such premises. If, after fully hearing the matter and any statement the owner may make and any testimony he or she may offer on his or her behalf concerning such matter, the Chief should find such premises or lot in a condition tending to injure the public health, he or she shall issue a written order or notice directed to the owner, directing and requiring him or her within a reasonable and specified time to clear such premises or lot in order to abate such nuisance.
(Prior Code, § 10.302)
§ 10.303  SAME; HOW SUMMONS GIVEN.
   The notice shall be served on the owner to whom it is directed or by certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed to such owner at his or her last known post office address. In the event personal service cannot be made and the owner’s address is unknown, such notice shall be given by publication at least two times within 15 consecutive days in a local newspaper of general circulation.
(Prior Code, § 10.303)
§ 10.304  SAME; FAILURE TO CLEAN DECLARED A MISDEMEANOR; PENALTY.
   a.   Any person, firm or corporation who shall fail to comply with an order to remove said property shall be served an ordinance summons to appear before the Magistrate, as provided in § 14.101 of this code.
   b.   Upon conviction, any person, firm or corporation shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to such fine as may be imposed by the Magistrate.
(Prior Code, § 10.304)
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