In the event that the city establishes in any judicial action instituted in accordance with Chapter 93 that a property within the corporate limits of the city constitutes a criminal public nuisance, the court shall, in addition to any other powers granted by the provisions of the Code of Ordinances or applicable law, have the power to enter an order restraining the owerns and occupants from using the property for any purpose for a period of up to one year, which order shall further provide that the owners and occupants shall have the right to use the property during the period of time specified in the order if any of them shall post a bond or other security payable to the city and approved by the court in an amount between $1,000 and $5,000, which bond or security shall be forefeited and paid over to the city by the obligor thereof in the event that any offense set forth above at § 135.02, in the definition of "Criminal Public Nuisance" is committed upon such property within the period of time set forth in the court order. Any person who is an owner or occupant of any property determined in any such judicial action to constitute a criminal public nuisance who intentionally, knowingly, recklessly, or negligently permitted such property to become, be used as or exist as a criminal public nuisance shall be liable to a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $750 per day for each day on which such property was used as or existed as a criminal public nuisance.
(Ord. 04-442, passed 5-12-04)