It is the intent of the City Council by this chapter to impose on the owner of a building or property in the city the cost for police, code enforcement service or any other city enforcement services, which are above the normal cost of providing these services city-wide, if the excess costs are spent to abate a nuisance which has occurred, or is maintained and permitted, in the building or on the property. The collection of the costs for such excess services shall be by assessment against the property on which the nuisance, or activity constituting the nuisance, occurs, pursuant to the authority in M.S. § 412.221, Subd. 23, empowering a city to abate nuisances and collect the costs of such abatement by special assessment. Nothing herein shall prevent the city from using the authority and procedures in any other provision of the city code or state law, including but not limited to M.S. § 429.021.
(Ord. 660, passed 9-5-2006; Am. Ord. 690, passed 4-6-2010)