(a) Court Order. When any person shall have been convicted of erecting, keeping or maintaining a nuisance, the court before which such conviction is had may order the defendant forthwith to abate and remove such nuisance within such time as may be specified by ordinance or by the order of such court.
(b) Continuing Offenses. Whoever neglects or refuses to remove or abate a nuisance within twenty-four hours after the first conviction, or within such other time as may be specified by ordinance or by order of the court, shall be fined a like sum for every twenty-four hours, or such other specified time thereafter, that such nuisance is so continued.
(c) Abatement by Police Chief. Whenever any person, upon having been found guilty of creating, keeping or maintaining a nuisance, shall fail to abate or remove the same as provided in subsection (a) hereof, or in accordance with the provisions of any ordinance, the Chief of Police shall proceed forthwith, with due care and without any unnecessary destruction of property, to remove or abate such nuisance, to keep an accurate account of all expenses attending such abatement and to report the same to the City Legal Counsel, which shall bring suit against such person to recover all such expenses and costs. (Adopting Ordinance) (Ord. 2017-56. Passed 7-17-17.)
(d) Summary Abatement. Nothing contained herein shall prevent the summary abatement by the Chief of Police, the Community Development Director, the Building Commissioner or the Public Works Director of any nuisance from which there is imminent danger to the life, health or limb of any person, without such conviction.
(Ord. 94-97. Passed 11-7-94; Ord. 2012-24. Passed 4-16-12; Ord. 2013-10. Passed 3-4-13.)
(e) Liability for Costs. In addition to the penalty provided in Section 658.99, any person found guilty of keeping, maintaining, permitting or failing to abate a nuisance shall be compelled to abate such nuisance and shall be liable for all costs and expenses of such abatement.