(A) Applicability. This chapter provides abatement procedures for violations of the Red Bluff Municipal Code and other codes adopted by the city when such violations create immediately dangerous, dangerous or substandard buildings or conditions on real property or otherwise constitute a public nuisance that endangers the life, limb, health, property, safety or welfare of the public.
(B) Code requirements.
(1) All buildings, structures, and properties that are required to be repaired, demolished, secured, or otherwise abated under the provisions of this chapter shall be subject to the requirements and standards set forth in the Red Bluff Municipal Code or any other code adopted by the city.
(2) All buildings, structures, and properties within the scope of this chapter and all construction or work for which a permit is required shall be subject to inspection in accordance with and in the manner provided by applicable provisions of the Red Bluff Municipal Code or any other code adopted by the city.
(C) Responsibility for maintenance of property. Every owner of real property within the city is required to maintain such property in a manner so as not to violate the provisions of the Red Bluff Municipal Code or any other code adopted by the city, and such owner remains liable for violations thereof regardless of any contract or agreement with any third party regarding such property.
(D) Abatement, repair and demolition fund.
(1) The City Council shall establish a special revolving fund to be designated as the abatement, repair, and demolition fund. Payments shall be made out of the fund upon the demand of the enforcement officer to defray the costs and expenses that may be incurred by the city in doing or causing to be done the necessary work of abatement, repair, demolition, or securement pursuant to this chapter.
(2) The City Council may at any time transfer to the abatement, repair and demolition fund, out of any money in the general fund or applicable enterprise fund of the city, such sums as it may deem necessary to expedite the performance of the work of abatement, repair, demolition or securement, and any sum so transferred shall be deemed a loan to the abatement, repair, and demolition fund and shall be repaid out of the proceeds of the collections provided for in this chapter. All funds collected under the proceedings in this chapter shall be paid to the Finance Department who shall credit the same to the abatement, repair and demolition fund.
(E) Penalties and costs.
(1) Any party who has maintained an immediately dangerous building, an immediately dangerous condition, a dangerous building, a substandard building, or a public nuisance may be subject to penalties following an administrative hearing conducted in accordance with the provisions of § 15.8 of this code.
(2) The cost of abatement, including all reasonable administrative and engineering costs incurred by the city as a result of the abatement, as well as any penalties imposed in connection with the abatement, may be collected as a special assessment against, or made a lien against, the property upon which the immediately dangerous building or immediately dangerous condition was located in accordance with the provisions of § 15.16 of this code.
(Ord. 1074, passed 7-18-2023)