(A) When the Mayor and City Council shall find it necessary to order the trimming, preservation or removal of trees or plants or weeds upon private property, they shall serve a written order to correct the dangerous condition upon the owner, operator, occupant or other person responsible for its existence.
(1) Time for compliance. The order required herein shall set forth a time limit for compliance, dependent upon the hazard and danger created by the violation. In cases of extreme danger to persons or public property, the Mayor and City Council shall have the authority to require compliance immediately upon service of the order.
(2) Failure to comply. When a person to whom an order is directed shall fail to comply within the specified time, the Mayor and City Council shall remedy the condition or contract with others for such purpose and charge the cost thereof to the person to whom the order is directed. The person remedying a condition under a contract made hereunder shall be authorized to enter premises for that purpose.
(B) If the cost of remedying a condition is not paid within 90 days after receipt of a statement therefor from the City Treasurer, such cost shall be levied against the property upon which said hazard exists as a special assessment. The levying of such assessment shall not affect the liability of the person to whom the order is directed to fine and imprisonment as herein provided. Such special assessment shall be certified by the Mayor and City Council to the City Treasurer and shall thereupon become and be a lien upon such property, shall be included in the next tax bill rendered to the owner or owners thereof unless paid before and shall be collected in the same manner as other tax against such property.
(Prior Code, § 12.16.060) (Ord. 372, passed 8-1-1956)