(A) Notice to adjoining owner or occupant. Whenever in the opinion of the Street Commissioner any street, alley or sidewalk adjoining any lot, parcel or tract of ground within the corporate limits of the city shall become filthy or impeded with rubbish or in any manner need cleaning up it shall be the duty of the Street Commissioner to post in that street or alley or on that sidewalk a written or printed notice in the following form:
To the owner or occupant of adjoining property you are hereby notified to clean up the adjoining property owned or occupied by you within hours from the date of the posting of this notice.
Posted this day of at o’clock .
Street Commissioner
(B) Removal by city; collection of costs. Should the owner or occupant refuse to clean up the street, alley or sidewalk within the time mentioned in the notice it shall be the duty of the Street Commissioner to at once proceed to clean up the street, alley or sidewalk and keep a careful account of the cost thereof and report the same to a careful account of the cost thereof and report the same to the Common Council and the cost of cleaning the street or alley or sidewalk as aforesaid shall be collected off of the owner or occupant of the property in any court of competent jurisdiction; a notice posted, as hereinbefore mentioned, shall be all the notice required to authorize the Street Commissioner to clean the street or alley or sidewalk.
(Prior Code, § 23-2) (Ord. passed 3-20-1884) Penalty, see § 101.999