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Sections 1701.01 to
1793.99
of these Codified Ordinances shall be known as the Sanitary Code of the City and may be separately printed and distributed.
(Ord. 59-08. Passed 7-21-2008.)
A notice served on the owner or agent of any property, or left at the residence of any owner or agent, or if, after due search, neither can be found, or both reside out of the City, posted on the front door, wall or fence of such property, and an advertisement inserted for one week in a newspaper of general circulation in the City, shall be considered sufficient and ample service. The cost of such advertisement shall be assessed and collected the same as any other tax in favor of the City or may be added to the cost or damages of suit when such suit is brought.
(Ord. 59-08. Passed 7-21-2008.)
(a) The Mayor or Director of Public Safety is hereby authorized to commission the Animal Control Officers or other employees as special police officers charged with the enforcement of any valid ordinance within the City of Lakewood as assigned.
(b) The following rules shall apply to such special police officers and their commissioning:
(1) The special police officers shall receive no additional compensation for their duties as such.
(2) The special police officers shall not be on the classified list of the Police Division or eligible for participation in the Police Pension Fund.
(3) The special police officers shall have the powers to issue misdemeanor citations and/or complaints and order the abatement of nuisances in the exercise and performance of their duties as set forth in this Sanitary Code, the General Offenses Code and other similar ordinances, statutes, rules or regulations relating or applicable to streets, sidewalks, tree lawns or other property belonging to the City and/or relating to the health of the City, and in such other specific cases as the Mayor may from time to time direct. The Animal Warden shall enforce all of the ordinances of the City relative to animals.
(Ord. 59-08. Passed 7-21-2008.)
Each section and each part of each section of this Sanitary Code is hereby declared to be an independent section or part of section, and the holding of any section or part of section to be invalid or ineffective, or the holding of the application of any section or part of any section to any person or circumstance to be invalid or ineffective, shall not affect any other section or part of section, or the application of any section or part of section to any other person or circumstance.
(Ord. 59-08. Passed 7-21-2008.)
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to do any act or thing prohibited by any of the provisions of this Sanitary Code, or to omit to do any act or thing required of any such person, firm or corporation by any of the provisions of this Sanitary Code.
(Ord. 59-08. Passed 7-21-2008.)
Whoever violates any of the provisions of this Sanitary Code for which no penalty is otherwise provided shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) or imprisoned for not more than sixty days, or both, and shall stand committed until such fine be paid or sentence served, or until otherwise discharged by due process of law. Each day's violation shall constitute a separate offense.
(Ord. 59-08. Passed 7-21-2008.)