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All places used for the unlawful purposes described above are hereby declared to be common nuisances and, upon the judgement of a town police officer for violation for any of the offenses so described, a court of jurisdiction shall be directed to abate and shut up the place by taking possession of all devices and all other property used in maintaining the nuisance, and the personal property so taken shall be forthwith publicly destroyed by the officer.
(1992 Code, § 9-2-5) (Ord. 31, § 13-4, passed 10-1-1975)
No person shall abandon, leave or place in any street, alley or public place of the town, any property of any kind; and no person shall permit any property of any kind so abandoned, left or placed to be or remain for more than 24 hours in any street, alley or public place of the town, adjacent to or in the vicinity of his or her property or residence, without reporting the same; and any property so abandoned, left or placed in any street, alley or public place, and any property abandoned, left or placed by any person on any private property of which report or complaint may have reached any bureau or department of the town, is declared to be a public nuisance and an obstruction and a menace to the public welfare, comfort, safety and health.
(1992 Code, § 9-2-6) (Ord. 31, § 13-5.1, passed 10-1-1975) Penalty, see § 130.99
It is hereby made the duty of any member of the Police Department to report to the Board of Trustees any property so abandoned, left or placed, and the Board of Trustees shall provide for the removal of the obstruction and the abatement of the nuisance, as soon as possible after receiving any report.
(1992 Code, § 9-2-7) (Ord. 31, § 13-5.2, passed 10-1-1975)
It shall be the duty of the Police Department to take possession of any article of property so abandoned, left or placed on any public or private property, and if the same is believed to have any value, to keep it and make an attempt to find the owner thereof, and to retain any article heretofore so taken up by it. It shall be the duty of the Department to maintain a place for the keeping of any article until the same shall be claimed or otherwise disposed of, and the town shall have a lien thereon for the reasonable expenses incurred and value or cost of the time and effort necessary in taking, removing and storing the article, and for the value of the storage and keeping thereof, and may retain possession until any and all the liens are discharged.
(1992 Code, § 9-2-8) (Ord. 31, § 13-5.3, passed 10-1-1975)
If any article of property has been or is kept for 90 days or more without being claimed, the same may be disposed of by the Police Department as follows:
(A) If of no value or slight value, it may be destroyed;
(B) If of slight value but of use to the town, it may be turned over to the proper department and used until claimed and the charges hereby made a lien thereon shall be regarded as a sufficient offset to the value of any use; and
(C) If of more than slight value, it may be sold by the Police Department 10 days after notice of the sale has been given by 1 publication in a legal newspaper of the town, and the town may be a bidder at the sale. If on any sale, an amount is bid in excess of the charges of lien of the town, the excess shall be deposited to the credit of the general fund of the Town of Keystone.
(1992 Code, § 9-2-9) (Ord. 31, § 13-5.4, passed 10-1-1975)
(A) In addition to the abatement remedies prescribed in this chapter, any person convicted of maintaining any nuisance in violation of any provision of this chapter shall be punished by a fine of not less than $1 nor more than $100 or imprisonment in jail not longer than 30 days or both the fine and imprisonment, and a separate offense shall be deemed committed on each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues.
(B) The remedies against a public nuisance, in addition to those prescribed therein, shall be those prescribed by state law.
(1992 Code, § 9-2-3) (Ord. 31, § 13-2, passed 10-1-1975)