(A) In cases where delay in abatement caused by the notice and procedure requirements set forth in § 91.21 of this chapter will permit a continuing nuisance to unreasonably endanger public health, safety or welfare, the City Administrator may order summary enforcement and abate the nuisance. To proceed with summary enforcement, the officer charged with enforcement shall determine that a public nuisance exists or is being maintained on premises in the city and that delay in abatement of the nuisance will unreasonably endanger public health, safety or welfare. The enforcement officer shall notify in writing the occupant or owner of the premises of the nature of the nuisance and of the city’s intention to seek summary enforcement and the time and place of a meeting with the City Administrator to consider the question of summary enforcement. The City Administrator shall determine whether or not the condition identified in the notice to the owner or occupant is a nuisance, whether public health, safety or welfare will be unreasonably endangered by delay in abatement required to complete the procedure set forth in § 91.21 of this chapter and may order that the nuisance be immediately terminated or abated. If the nuisance is not immediately terminated or abated, the City Administrator may order summary enforcement and abate the nuisance.
(B) Removal of ice/snow, grass and noxious weeds.
(1) Declared a hazard. The Council hereby finds that the removal of snow and ice from public sidewalks, grass and noxious weed mowing will unreasonably endanger the public health, safety and welfare and that summary enforcement shall be ordered by the officer charged with enforcement.
(2) Abatement. The city may cause to be served upon the owner of the property upon which such nuisance exists, by registered or certified mail, or by posting on the premises, a notice ordering such owner to remove the nuisance within 36 hours after the time of the notice, and stating that in the event the owner does not comply with such order, the necessary work may be performed or caused to be performed by the city at the expense of the owner, and that if the owner does not pay for such expense, the cost of the work will be assessed against the property benefitted.
(Prior Code, § 10.56) (Ord. 37, Fourth Series, effective 8-24-2023)