A. Any police officer, City Administrator, City Engineer, Building Official, Zoning Administrator, Fire Chief, or City employee designated as code enforcement, may order any wrecked, dismantled, abandoned, junked, damaged or destroyed household goods and equipment, motor vehicles, machinery, or miscellaneous property or parts thereof removed within ten (10) days, except if the item shall constitute a traffic hazard it may be removed immediately to the impounding yard and notice subsequently be given as provided in subsection B of this section.
B. Notice of such order of the wrecked, dismantled, abandoned, junked, damaged or destroyed household goods and equipment, motor vehicles, machinery, or miscellaneous property shall be served upon any adult occupying the real estate upon which the item is located, if known. If no occupant of the real estate or owner of the item or part thereof can be found on the premises, a notice affixed in a conspicuous place to any building on the real estate shall constitute notice to the owner or occupant of the real estate and to the owner of the item or part thereof. If there is no building on the real estate, said notice may be affixed elsewhere on the real estate in a conspicuous place. Notice shall also be mailed to the owner of the real property parcel. (1982 Code; amd. Ord. 2022-664, 9-14-2022; Ord. 2023-671, 4-26-2023)