(A) No person shall create, continue or maintain any nuisance.
(B) A nuisance is any act, place or condition which is offensive or dangerous to the public health, safety, peace, comfort or repose, and includes but is not limited to accumulations of filth, decaying organic matter, stagnant water or any other condition defined in § 96.01 (B).
(C) Whenever the City Health Officer, City Sanitarian, Street Commissioner, police officer, or any other city official who may be designated by the Board of Public Works and Safety, has reason to believe that a nuisance exists on any property in the city or within two miles of the limits thereof, he may enter upon such property for the purposes of inspection for such a nuisance. If upon such inspection a nuisance is found, the inspecting officer shall notify the owner or occupant in writing to do whatever is necessary to abate the nuisance within a reasonable period not longer than five days.
(1) If the owner or occupant is not found, the notice shall be served by mailing a copy of the notice to the owner’s address, if known; and if the owner’s address is unknown, by posting such notice in a prominent place on the property where the nuisance was found.
(2) If upon the expiration of the period stated in the notice the owner or occupant of the property has not abated the nuisance, the City Sanitarian or other officer of the city shall make such steps as may be necessary to abate the nuisance, including the hiring of labor and purchase of supplies.
(3) The cost of abating the nuisance shall be certified to the Council at its next regular meeting and the Council shall direct the Clerk-Treasurer to pay such costs and this amount shall be a lien against the property and shall be collected as other taxes are collected. When this amount is collected, it shall be credited to the city treasury.
(‘85 Code, § 6.04; Am. Ord. 12-1997, passed 8-11-97) Penalty, see § 96.99