(A) Notice to owner. If the Mayor, based on the report of the inspecting officer, shall determine that a public nuisance exists on private property and that there is great and immediate danger to the public health, safety, peace, morals or decency, the Mayor may direct the police, or a deputy sheriff, to serve a notice on the owner, or, if the owner cannot be found, on the occupant or person causing, permitting or maintaining such nuisance and to post a copy of the notice on the premises. Such notice shall direct the owner, occupant or persons causing, permitting or maintaining a nuisance to abate or remove the nuisance within 24 hours and shall state that unless the nuisance is so abated, the city will cause the same to be abated and will charge the cost thereof to the owner, occupant or person causing, permitting or maintaining the same, as the case may be.
(B) Abatement by the city. If the nuisance is not abated within the time provided or if the owner, occupant or person causing the nuisance cannot be found, the Mayor, Police, or the Building Inspector, or some other city official whom the Mayor shall designate, shall cause the abatement or removal of such public nuisance.
(Ord. 533, passed 4-20-87)