(A) Authority of Health Officer; notice to abate.
(1) Pursuant to the authority granted by 63 O.S. § 1-1011, the Health Officer shall have the authority to order the owner, lessee or occupant of any private premises in the town to remove from such premises, at his or her own expense, any source of filth, cause of sickness or condition conducive to the breeding of insects or rodents which might contribute to the transmission of disease, or any other condition adversely affecting the public health, within 24 hours, or within such other time as may be directed in writing, which order may be served personally on the owner or occupant of the premises or on an authorized agent thereof by the Health Officer or a police officer, or a copy thereof may be left at the last usual place of abode of the owner, occupant or agent, if such is known and within the state.
(2) If the premises is unoccupied and the residence of the owner, occupant or agent is unknown or is without the state, then the order may be served by posting a copy thereof on the premises or by publication in at least one issue of a newspaper having a general circulation in the town.
(B) Abatement by town; costs. If the order is not complied with, then the Health Officer may cause the order to be executed and complied with, and the cost thereof shall be certified to the Town Clerk-Treasurer.
(1) The cost of removing or abating such nuisance shall be added to the water bill or other town utility bill of the owner or occupant if he or she is a user of water from the town water system or such other 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 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 town utility service, then such cost, after certification to the Town Clerk-Treasurer, may be collected in any manner in which any other debt due the town may be collected.
(Prior Code, § 5-3-9) Penalty, see § 10.99