(A) It shall be unlawful for any property owner or occupant to allow an environmental public nuisance to exist. This provision shall not apply to excluded property.
(B) If the town, or any agent of the town, receives a complaint regarding an environmental public nuisance on any property within the town boundaries, said agent or town employee shall forward that complaint to the Town Council, who shall make a record of, and assign a case number to, such complaint. An authorized individual shall visually inspect the property in question.
(C) Notice of violation described in division (B) above, shall be issued either by personal service, or by first class United States mail, postage prepaid. Such notice shall state the nature of the alleged environmental public nuisance and the action deemed necessary to correct the condition, and shall fix a date not sooner than ten days from the date of the notice for vegetation of a height of 12 inches or more, and 14 days from the date of the notice for all other violations under this chapter, when the property will be reinspected. The notice shall inform the recipient that, if the condition is not corrected upon reinspection, the Town Council, or its designated representative, has the right to enter upon the property to abate or correct the condition and bill the recipient for costs incurred in so doing. A notice to the occupant at the real estate or to the owner at the address to which property tax statements are sent as these addresses are shown by the most current records in the County Assessor’s office, shall be sufficient notice under this division (C).
(D) If, upon reinspection, it is determined that the environmental public nuisance has been corrected, the recipient shall not be liable for any charges under this subchapter.
(Ord. 2019-01, passed 5-6-2019) Penalty, see § 94.99