All property owners and developers of developed real property within the Town of Star City shall provide, manage, maintain, and operate on-site stormwater systems sufficient to collect, convey, detain, and discharge stormwater in a safe manner consistent with all Town of Star City development regulations and the laws of the State of West Virginia and the United States of America. Any failure to meet this obligation shall constitute a nuisance and be subject to an abatement action filed by the Town in the Municipal Court. In the event a public nuisance is found by the Court to exist, which the owner fails to properly abate within such reasonable time as allowed by the Court, the Town may enter upon the property and cause such work as is reasonably necessary to be performed, with the actual cost thereof assessed against the owner in the same manner as a tax levied against the property. From date of the filing of such action, the Town shall have lien rights, which may be perfected, after judgment, by filing a notice of lien on the City Tax Lien Book of the Clerk of the County Commission of Monongalia County, West Virginia. The Town shall have the right, pursuant to the authority of this article, for its designated officers and employees to enter upon private and public property owned by entities other than the Town, upon reasonable notice to the owner thereof, to inspect the property and conduct surveys and engineering tests thereon in order to assure compliance.
(Passed 3-30-04.)