(A) In the event of the failure, refusal or neglect of the owner or occupant of any premises or property to cause such nuisance to be removed or abated in the manner and within the time provided, it shall be the duty of the City Secretary to cause the weeds, brush, rubbish or other unsanitary matter or condition constituting a nuisance, to be promptly and summarily abated, in a reasonable and prudent manner, at the expense of the city. The City Secretary or his or her duly authorized representatives shall carefully compile the cost of such work done and improvements made in abating such nuisance, and shall charge the same against the owner of the premises. The City Council hereby finds and declares that general overhead and administrative expense of inspection, locating owner, issuing notice, reinspection and ordering work done, together with all necessary incidents of same, require the reasonable charge of $100 for each lot, series of two or more adjacent and contiguous lots, or tract or parcel of acreage, and such minimum charge is hereby established and declared to be an expense of such work and improvement. Notwithstanding, therefore, any tabulation of recorded cost, a minimum charge of $100 shall be assessed against each lot so improved under the terms of the provisions of this section, but such some of $100 is hereby expressly stated to be a minimum charge only, and shall have no application when the tabulated cost of the work done shall exceed such minimum charge. After charging the same against the owner of the premises, the City Secretary shall certify a statement of such expenses. For any such expenditures, and interest as aforesaid, suit may be instituted by the City Attorney and recovery had in the name of the city; and the statement so made, as aforesaid, or a certified copy thereof, shall be prima face proof of the amount expended in any such work or improvements.
(2004 Code, § 6-203)
(B) The city shall have the right to award any quantity of work authorized to a general contractor whose bid shall be accepted by the City Council as the lowest and best secured bid for the doing of the work herein mentioned during a stipulated time not to exceed one year.
(2004 Code, § 6-204)
(C) In additions to the remedies prescribed above, and cumulative thereof, if it shall be brought to the attention of the City Council and shall by the Council be determined that any such nuisance, or nuisances, are likely to have an immediate adverse effect upon the public health, comfort or safety, then and in that event, the City Council may, by appropriate resolution or motion, order such nuisance or nuisances summarily abated by the city in a reasonably prudent manner.
(2004 Code, § 6-205)
(Ord. 2002-3, passed 12-9-2002)