8.04.050 REMOVAL BY CITY.

   If the person or persons owning, occupying, renting, managing or controlling real property in the city fail to remove or destroy weeds or rubbish in accordance with the notice given pursuant to the provisions of Section 8.04.040 within ten days after the mailing of such notice, it shall be the duty of the superintendent of streets and his or her deputies, assistants, employees, contracting agents or other representatives including, without limitation, members of the fire department of the city, to destroy or remove such weeds or rubbish and they, and each of them, are expressly authorized to enter upon private property for such purpose; and it is unlawful for any person to interfere, hinder or refuse to allow them to enter upon private property for such purpose and to destroy or remove weeds or rubbish in accordance with the provisions of this section. Any person owning, occupying, renting, managing, leasing, or controlling real property in the city shall have the right to destroy or remove weeds or rubbish or have the same destroyed or removed at his or her own expense at any time prior to the arrival of the superintendent of streets or his or her authorized representatives for such purpose. (Ord. 116 § 5, 1959).

8.04.060 ACCOUNT OF REMOVAL COST.

   The tax collector shall keep an account of the cost to the city to destroy or remove weeds or rubbish as aforesaid for each separate lot or parcel of land and the portions of streets adjoining the same and shall embody such account in a report and assessment list to the City Council , which report shall be filed with the City Clerk. Such report shall refer to each separate lot or parcel of land by description sufficient reasonably to identify the same, together with the expense proposed to be assessed against it. (Ord. 116 § 6, 1959).

8.04.070 ASSESSMENT AGAINST OWNER – NOTICE.

   The City Clerk shall post a copy of such report and assessment list on the bulletin board near the entrance to the city hall, together with the notice of the filing thereof and of the time and place when and where it will be submitted to the City Council for hearing and confirmation. The tax collector shall mail to the persons and in the manner prescribed in Section 8.04.040 hereof a notice in form substantially as follows:

“ASSESSMENT FOR DESTRUCTION

OR REMOVAL OF WEEDS

AND RUBBISH

NOTICE OF HEARING

THEREON.

   Notice is hereby given that pursuant to the provisions of Ordinance No. 116 of the City of Pinole, the Superintendent of Streets has destroyed or removed weeds or rubbish from the real property owned, occupied, rented, managed or controlled by you and from the portions of streets, alleys and sidewalks adjoining the same, which real property is described as follows: (here insert description of real property sufficient for reasonable and ready identification).

   The cost of said destruction or removal proposed to be assessed against said property is $                        .

   FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on                           , the                day of              , 19      , at the hour of       m. In the Council Chambers of the City of Pinole, the report

of the Tax Collector on the cost of destruction or removal of weeds or rubbish and the assessment list thereof will be presented to the City Council for consideration, correction and confirmation and that at said time and place any and all persons interested in or having any objections to said report or list of proposed assessments, or to any matter or thing contained therein may appear and be heard. The failure to make any objection to said report and list shall be deemed a waiver of the same.

   Upon confirmation of said assessment by the City Council, the amount thereof will be payable. In the event the same is not paid on or before the 15th day of June following the aforesaid hearing, said assessment will be added to the tax bill for said property and thereafter shall become a lien on said property.

   Dated:                           

                        Tax Collector of the City of Pinole”

(Ord. 116 § 7, 1959).

8.04.080 ASSESSMENT AGAINST OWNER – HEARING.

   At the time and place fixed for receiving and considering the report, the City Council shall hear the same together with any protests or objections which may be raised by any interested person. Upon such hearing, the Council shall make such corrections and modifications in any proposed. assessment which it may deem to be excessive or otherwise incorrect after which such assessments shall be confirmed by a resolution of the Council and the amount thereof shall constitute a lien on property assessed until paid. The confirmation of assessment by the Council shall be final and conclusive. (Ord. 116 § 8, 1959).

8.04.090 ASSESSMENT AGAINST OWNER – PAYMENT.

   It shall be lawful for any person to pay the amount of such assessment for destruction or removal of weeds or rubbish on or before the fifteenth day of June following the date the confirmation of the assessment was made by the Council. If the assessment is not paid on or before said date, the total amount thereof entered on the next fiscal year tax call as a lien against the property, and shall be subject to the same penalties as are provided for other delinquent taxes or assessments of the city. (Ord. 116 § 9, 1959).

8.04.100 VIOLATION – PENALTY.

   Any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. (Ord. 116 § 10, 1959).