(A) It is the desire and intent of the City Council to eliminate the unlawful selling, serving, storing, keeping, manufacturing, or giving away of any controlled substance, precursor, or analog specified in California Health and Safety Code §§ 11000 et seq. in every building or place wherein or upon which those acts take place.
(B) The City Council finds that the unlawful selling, serving, storing, keeping manufacturing, or giving away of any controlled substance, precursor, or analog specified in California Health and Safety Code §§ 11000 et seq. in any building or at any place in the city is injurious to the health, safety, morals and general welfare of the community, interferes with the comfortable enjoyment of life and property and tends to debilitate family life in the city.
(C) California Health and Safety Code § 11570 states that every building or place used for the purpose of unlawfully selling, serving, storing, keeping, manufacturing, or giving away of any controlled substance, precursor, or analog specified in the California Health and Safety Code §§ 11000 et seq. and every building or place wherein or upon which those acts take place, is a nuisance which shall be enjoined, abated, and prevented, and for which damages may be recovered, whether it is a public or a private nuisance.
(D) The laws of the state defining nuisance and the abatement thereof provide for civil and criminal enjoinment of such acts. The City Council intends hereby to declare the activities set forth herein as a nuisance, to provide procedures for determining that a nuisance exists, for the necessary order of abatement thereof and for the civil and/or criminal prosecution to enforce any such findings and orders.
('64 Code, § 17C-1) (Ord. 841, passed 6-23-94; Am. Ord. 910, passed 6-8-00)