The County Planner, County Health Director, County Mosquito Control Officer or other county official as designated by the County Manager or Dare County Board of Commissioners, is delegated the authority to investigate alleged public nuisances. These officials may work independently or collectively to investigate alleged public nuisances depending on the nature of the situation. These officials shall have the right to enter, at any reasonable time, any premises for the purpose of making inspections or investigations as needed. If in the opinion of the investigating officials after a visit to the site of the alleged public nuisance, a public nuisance is determined to exist, the investigating official(s) shall cause a written notice to be mailed by certified mail in the United States Postal Service to the last known address of the persons in whose name the property is listed for the payment of ad valorem taxes in the records of the Dare County Tax Department or shall personally serve written notice upon the persons in whose name the property is listed for the payment of ad valorem taxes in the records of the Dare County Tax Department. The notice shall contain information identifying the property and the nature of the public nuisance and shall state that the addressee shall have 10 days from the mailing of the notice to abate or remedy the alleged public nuisance or file notice of a request for a hearing. In the event an investigating official determines that a public nuisance is an immediate detriment to human safety or welfare, the official may take appropriate action to abate the public nuisance without notice.
(Prior Code, § 98.03) (Ord. 92-3-9, passed 3-16-1992; Am. Ord. passed 5-18-2009)