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SEC. 27-48.   PRESUMPTIONS.
   (a)   A property is presumed a habitual criminal property if the property is the site:
      (1)   of five or more abatable criminal activities within 365 days resulting in either a report of a law enforcement agency documenting an investigation of an abatable criminal activity on the property or enforcement action against any person associated with the abatable criminal activity on the property; and
      (2)   at which persons have historically committed abatable criminal activities, according to recent crime data.
   (b)   A property is presumed a habitual nuisance property if the property is the site of three or more citations for code violations within 365 days.
   (c)   An owner of a habitual criminal or nuisance property is presumed to have knowingly tolerated the abatable criminal activity or code violations at the owner's property by failing to take reasonable steps, including those outlined in Section 27-49(b)(1) of this chapter, as amended, to abate the abatable criminal activity or code violations.
   (d)   The presumptions in this section are rebuttable at the accord meeting pursuant to Section 27-49 of this chapter, as amended. (Ord. Nos. 30714; 32057)