(A) Purpose and intent.
(1) The City Council recognizes that the city has limited staff and resources and finds that properties requiring responses to repeated nuisance service calls, as defined herein, present a burden to the community at large because they limit the availability of law enforcement and public safety protection services to other residents of the city.
(2) The purpose of this subchapter is to protect the public safety, health and welfare and to prevent and abate repeat nuisance service calls to the same property or location which prevents public safety services from being available to other residents of the city.
(3) It is the intent of the city to impose and collect a repeat nuisance service call fee from the owner, occupant or responsible party of property to which the city officials must repeatedly respond for any repeat nuisance event or activity that generates extraordinary costs to the city. The repeat nuisance service call fee is intended to cover the city’s cost over and above its cost of providing normal law enforcement services and public safety protection city-wide.
(B) Scope and application. This subchapter applies to owners, occupants and responsible parties of private property that is the subject or location of repeat nuisance service calls. This subchapter applies to repeat nuisance service calls made by owners, occupants and responsible parties to the County Sheriff’s Department for responses to locations within the city.
(Prior Code, § 907.01) (Ord. 06-06, passed 12-29-2006)