This section shall provide authority to the City of Dunbar to file liens on real property for costs incurred in abating exterior sanitation and common nuisance violations and for costs incurred in repairing or correcting said violations.
(a) The City may file a lien on real property for costs incurred in abating exterior sanitation and common nuisance violations, which include, but are not limited to taking action to repair, alter, or demolish property, mow overgrown grass, repair or replace sidewalks, collect unlawful accumulations of garbage and rubbish, or other violations as may be set forth in the Health and Sanitation Code codified into Part 11, the Zoning Ordinance codified into Part 13, and the Building and Housing Code, incorporated by reference into Part 17 of the Municipal Code of the City of Dunbar, the International Property Maintenance Code as adopted and amended by the City of Dunbar when the following occurs:
(1) A property owner, after receiving lawful notice of violation pursuant to Section 1757 or pursuant to any other applicable provision of the Municipal Code, fails to abate the violation; and
(2) The enforcement official lawfully enters said property and performs the work necessary to abate the violation; and
(3) A notice of the costs of abatement is sent to the property owner and those costs are not remitted within 30 days to the City.
(Ord. 726. Passed 4-6-15.)