1. When there exists on private property a condition which has been determined a nuisance by a city enforcement employee, such employee is hereby authorized and empowered to abate. A notice will be served in the manner specified. It shall be in writing and will be sent by certified mail.
2. Include a description of the property where the violation is occurring sufficient for identification.
3. Include a statement of the violation(s).
4. Include an order to correct the violation and bring the property into compliance with the provisions of this code within a specified time determined by the code.
5. Inform the property owner or other persons responsible of their right to appeal.
6. Notice shall be deemed to be properly served if a copy thereof is:
a. Delivered in person and signed for; or
b. Sent by certified mail to the last known address of the owner or occupant; or
c. If the notice is returned showing that the letter was not delivered, or if the certified letter is not claimed in fifteen (15) days, a copy thereof shall be posted in a conspicuous place on or about the property where the violation is occurring.
In the event that a nuisance is not taken care of after such notification and allotted timeframe has passed, said city enforcement employee shall be empowered to authorize entry upon such premises and abate such public nuisance. All costs incurred by the city for the remedy and disposition of the nuisance or for correcting the nuisance, including all administrative fees, shall be either charged to the owners or assessed, levied and collected as a special assessment payable in one sum, or by up to five equal annual installments as the council may provide, against the premises from which it was remedied, in the manner provided by law for the levy and collection of other special assessments. Any legal cost incurred by the city may also be assessed to the property owner. Any person violating any provision of this chapter shall be guilty of a Class II misdemeanor. A separate violation may be alleged for each day said nuisance continues. (Ord. 712 (part), 2012; Ord. 705 (part), 2011; Ord. 585 (part), 2003)