(a) For the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this chapter, the City Manager, the Department of Health of jurisdiction within the City and/or any individual or entity designated by the City Manager, is authorized and empowered at any reasonable time to enter upon, and/or to inspect any premises or property when there is reasonable cause then existent to believe that a public nuisance as defined in this chapter exists within or upon the same.
(b) In addition to the penalties provided for the violation of the provisions of this chapter as set forth in Section 531.99, and any and all other penalties and sanctions allowed by law, the City Manager, the Department of Health of jurisdiction within the City and/or any other individual or entity designated by the City Manager may cause written notice of any violation of any provision of this chapter to be served upon the owner, occupant or person having charge of the property involved, by personal delivery, by causing the same to be sent to such individual by certified United States mail, or by posting such notice or by causing the posting of or by posting such notice in a conspicuous place upon the property or premises involved. The written notice shall state the nature of the public nuisance, and the time, not less than five days after the date of delivery or posting thereof, within which it shall be abated. The written notice shall also apprise the individual that absent abatement of the public nuisance within the time prescribed, the City will abate the same by its own action or cause its abatement, and charge the reasonable costs thereof against the premises or property involved which shall then become a lien against such premises, and shall set forth the rate or rates at which such abatement shall be charged and assessed. If the public nuisance is not abated within the time allowed, the City Manager shall then cause it to be abated, and the reasonable cost thereof to be charged and assessed at the rate or rates set out in the notice described hereinabove together with an additional charge and penalty of fifty dollars ($50.00), shall be reported by the City Manager to the Director of Finance who may make such efforts as he deems appropriate in his attempt to collect the same, and who thereafter shall certify the same to the Auditor of Erie County, to be placed upon the tax duplicate of the County as a charge and lien against the premises involved which shall be collected as real estate taxes are collected. (1980 Code 93.05; Ord. 19-208. Passed 12-9-19.)
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