109.02 FINDING AND NOTICE OF NUISANCE.

   The Chief of Police or the Chief's designee, upon finding that one or more nuisance activities declared in this Chapter have occurred within any eighteen month period at or within 300 feet of a property, may cause a written warning letter to be served on the owner of the property declaring that such property may be declared a nuisance property if a second or additional nuisance activities occur at or within 300 feet of the property within any eighteen month period. The Chief of Police or the Chief's designee, upon finding that two or more nuisance activities declared in this Chapter have occurred within any eighteen month period at or within 300 feet of any property, may cause a written notice and order to be served on the owner of the property declaring that such property is a nuisance property. The notice and order shall set forth the nature of the nuisances, the estimated costs to abate any future nuisance, and state that the owner may avoid being charged the costs of abatement by taking steps to prevent any further nuisance activity as set forth in this Section. The notice shall further state that if a third or subsequent nuisance activity as declared in this Chapter occurs within eighteen months of the dates of the first two activities, the City may abate the nuisance by responding to the activities using administrative and law enforcement actions, and the costs of such abatement shall be assessed on the nuisance property. Notice shall be served as set forth in Section 107.04 of the Codified Ordinances.

(Ord. 16-109. Enacted 10-24-16.)