(a) The Department of Public Health shall be the primary administering and enforcing agency under this Article. The Director is hereby authorized to call upon the Director of Public Works and the Chief of Police and all other city officers, employees, departments and bureaus to aid and assist him or her in such enforcement, and it shall then be their duty to assist the Director in enforcement of this Article by performing such duties as may come within their respective jurisdictions.
(b) Upon an owner or manager's failure to comply with an order from the Director, the Director may request the City Attorney to maintain an action for injunction to enforce the provisions of this Article and for assessment and recovery of a civil penalty for such violation. The Director may also request the City Attorney or the District Attorney, as the case may be, to commence an action against the owner or manager of any building, premises or dwelling unit declared to be a nuisance under this Article for an injunction or civil penalty under the California Business and Professions Code.
(c) Upon an owner's failure to abate a nuisance under this Article pursuant to an order from the Director, and if an owner has not commenced good faith efforts for compliance as determined by the Director, the Director may notify, in writing, the Franchise Tax Board of the noncompliance. The notice of noncompliance shall contain the legal description or the lot and block numbers of the real property, the assessor's parcel number, and the name of the owner of record as shown on the latest equalized assessment roll.
(Added by Ord. 409-96, App. 10/21/96)