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The Code Enforcement Officer shall notify, in writing, property owners who, in the judgment of the Code Enforcement Officer or his duly authorized agent, have failed to maintain the stormwater drainage system in proper repair or who have failed to create such a system, to the effect that such repairs and/or installation shall be undertaken within thirty (30) days of the date of the personal delivery or the mailing of the notice to the last known address of the owner as shown on the property tax rolls. Receipt of the notice shall be presumed as proper notice under this article unless and until notification of a change of address of such owner is received by the city.
(Ord. 08-1995, passed 2-20-96; Am. Ord. 02-2010, passed 3-8-10)
(A) Within a thirty (30) day period, any owner hereby affected shall undertake to complete the repairs in an orderly and workmanlike manner and the cost of the repairs shall be borne by the property owner.
(B) Each property owner shall hold the city harmless and shall indemnify the city in the event some passerby is injured and/or property is damaged at the site of the alleged defect.
(Ord. 08-1995, passed 2-20-96)
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Cross reference:
Penalty, see § 31.999
If, in the judgment of the Code Enforcement Officer or his duly authorized agent, and upon completion of the repairs, the work is unsatisfactory, or has not been performed in accordance with the existing city specifications, the owner shall be required to replace or repair the work according to specifications supplied by the city.
(Ord. 08-1995, passed 2-20-96; Am. Ord. 02-2010, passed 3-8-10)
(A) Upon failure of the property owner to undertake such necessary repairs within the time specified in this article, the city shall undertake, without further notification to the owner, to repair the stormwater drainage system and to bill the involved property owner, for the costs incurred in repairing the storm sewer system.
(B) The total costs, together with interest at six percent (6%) per annum from billing date shall constitute a lien on the real estate to secure payment.
(C) Each property owner shall hold the city harmless and shall indemnify the city in the event some passerby is injured and/or property is damage at a repair site.
(Ord. 08-1995, passed 2-20-96)
(A) Any person, firm, or corporation violating any of the provisions of this chapter, or failing or refusing to comply with the provisions of this chapter, where or not he, she or it shall be the owner or the occupant of the premises involved, shall be guilty of a violation and shall be fined fifty dollars ($50.00) for each offense payable to the city. Each day that a person, firm, or corporation fails to or refuses to connect the sanitary sewer drain from any property or building owned or occupied by him with an available sewer line, or each day any privy, wall, vault, pool, cistern, septic tank, or similar contrivance into which sewage is cast or permitted to be disposed of, is kept or maintained in violation of this chapter, or each day any storm water drain remains connected to any separate sanitary sewer, or each day that any other provision is violated, shall constitute a separate offense.
(B) In addition to the fine stipulated in subsection (A), any violator of § 31.013 shall further be fined in an amount equivalent to the damages caused by the violation.
(Ord. 08-1995, passed 2-20-96)
