A. City Manager As Health Officer: The City Manager is hereby appointed as Health Officer for the City. The duties of the Health Officer shall be to enforce the ordinances of the City relating to public health.
B. Authority Of Health Officer; Notice To Abate:
1. Pursuant to authority granted by 63 Oklahoma Statutes section 1-1011, the Health Officer of the City shall have authority to order the owner or occupant of any private premises in the City to remove from such premises, at the owner's or occupant's own expense, any source of filth, cause of sickness, condition conducive to the breeding of insects or rodents that might contribute to the transmission of disease, or any other condition adversely affecting the public health, within twenty four (24) hours, or within such other time as may be reasonable, and a failure to do so shall constitute an offense. Such order shall be in writing and may be served personally on the owner or occupant of the premises, or authorized agent thereof, by the Health Officer or by a police officer, or a copy thereof may be left at the last usual place of abode of the owner, occupant, or agent, if known and within the State.
2. If the premises are unoccupied and the residence of the owner, occupant, or agent is unknown, or is without the State, the order may be served by posting a copy thereof on the premises, or by publication in at least one (1) issue of newspaper having a general circulation in the City.
C. Abatement By City; Costs:
1. If the order is not complied with, the Health Officer may cause the order to be executed and complied with, and the cost thereof shall be certified to the City Clerk, and the cost of removing or abating such nuisance shall be added to the City utility bill of the owner or occupant if he is a user of utility service. The cost shall be treated as a part of such utility bill to which it is added, and shall become due and payable, and be subject to the same regulations relating to delinquency in payment, as the utility bill itself.
2. If such owner or occupant is not a user of any City utility service, such cost thereof shall be certified to the County Treasurer, who shall add the same to the ad valorem taxes assessed against the property, and such cost shall be a lien against the property, until paid, and shall be collected in the same manner as ad valorem taxes against the property, and when collected shall be paid to the City for reimbursement of the funds used to pay such cost. (Ord. 2003-01-08, 8-25-2003)