(a) The Police Chief, any police officer, the Chief of the Fire Department, any member of the Fire Department, the City Health Officer, or any member of the Health Department, or any bona fide citizen residing in the City may file under oath a complaint against any person maintaining or harboring any nuisance.
(b) If such complaint is filed by a citizen other than by some one of the City officials above designated, such complaint may be laid before Council at its next regular or special session or meeting, and if Council directs, the City Recorder shall issue notice to be served upon the person charged with maintaining or harboring such nuisance, requiring him to appear before Council, at a designated time, and to show cause, if any he can, why such nuisance should not be abated. Such notice shall be served, as other legal notices are served, on the owner, lessee, agent, manager in charge, or any servant or employee in charge or control of the premises where the nuisance in question is alleged to exist, at least five days prior to the time set therein for the hearing before Council.
(c) If the complaint is filed by any City official above named, the City Recorder shall forthwith issue such notice without the necessity of referring the complaint to Council.
(1965 Code Sec. 21-5.)