a. Nuisances prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person to maintain or to permit to be maintained any premises, including vacant lots or land, upon which any condition exists which constitutes a nuisance, eyesore or health or safety hazard. Such prohibited conditions shall include, but not be limited to, the accumulation of trash, abandoned or unusual personal property, garbage, offal, stagnant water or building materials.
b. Owners to be informed. It shall be the duty of the town’s Police Department to summon the owner of any premises upon which any prohibited condition exists and if, after fully investigating the matter, the town’s police shall find such premises in a prohibited condition, the town’s police shall issue a written order or notice directed to the owner, directing and requiring such owner within a certain specified time, not less than ten days, to clear such premises in order to abate the prohibited condition.
c. Abatement; liens against the property. Should any property owner, after the required notice, fail to remedy the prohibited condition of such owner’s property, the municipality, through its agents, servants or employees, may enter such property and take whatever steps are necessary to remedy the unlawful condition of such property and the reasonable costs thereof shall become a lien against the property, as provided by the International Property Maintenance Code, as adopted. If the owner of a premises fails to comply with a demolition order, upon approval of Town Council, the Town Council may order that the structure be demolished or removed, either through an available public agency or by contract or arrangement with private persons and that the reasonable cost thereof shall become a lien against the property, as provided by the International Property Maintenance Code, as adopted.
(Prior Code, § 14.817) (Ord. 1990-1114, passed 12-12-1990; Ord. 06-0101, passed 2-8-2006; Ord. 2016-05, passed 10-3-2016)