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It shall be unlawful for all persons owning or occupying premises within the city through which an acequia, arroyo, water ditch, or natural drainage channel runs not to keep such arroyo, acequia, water ditch or natural drainage channel at all times free from all rubbish, garbage, filth, growing vegetation, brush, and any and all foreign matter and things whatever, which may obstruct the natural and easy flow of the water therein, or which may endanger the health, safety or welfare of residents of the vicinity or the public in general.
(1953 Code, ch. 18, § 55; Ord. No. 1839, § 2, 7-21-58)
It shall be the duty of persons mentioned in section 11-59, on notice in writing from the chief of the fire department or director of public works or their authorized deputies, to forthwith remove from any acequia, arroyo, water ditch or natural drainage channel which runs through their property within the city any rubbish, garbage, filth, growing vegetation, foreign matter of any type, or anything whatsoever which may impede the natural and easy flow of water, endanger or injure neighboring property or the free use and enjoyment of same, or endanger the health, welfare or safety of residents in the vicinity, or the public in general, within five (5) days from the date of such notice.
(1953 Code, ch. 18, § 55a; Ord. No. 1839, § 3, 7-21-58)
The notice provided for in section 11-60 shall be given by registered letter to the owner at his last-known address and to the occupant; and if unoccupied, by posting the same in a conspicuous place on the property. If, within ten (10) days after giving such notice, the rubbish, garbage, filth, growing vegetation, foreign matter or thing mentioned in the notice shall not be removed, the chief of the fire department or director of public works, or their authorized deputies, shall then cause same to be removed at the expense of the owner of the property. A verified statement of the costs and expense in connection therewith shall be mailed to the record owner at his last-known address and to the occupant. The record owner shall be liable for the payment of the expense to the city, and an appropriate action in any court of competent jurisdiction may be maintained to collect the expense.
(1953 Code, ch. 18, § 55b; Ord. No. 1839, § 4, 7-21-58)
The presence of garbage, trash, refuse, grass clippings and other waste materials, or the accumulation and presence of weeds, brush and natural vegetation to the extent that it impedes, obstructs or hinders the easy natural flow of drainage or floodwaters in any arroyo, water ditch, acequia or natural drainage channel is hereby declared a public nuisance; such nuisance may be abated by appropriate action in any court of competent jurisdiction by the city in addition to other remedies provided by law.
(1953 Code, ch. 18, § 55c; Ord. No. 1839, § 5, 7-21-58)
(1953 Code, ch. 18, § 55d; Ord. No. 1839, § 6, 7-21-58)
Sec. 11-64(1). Purposes.
(a) The purposes of this section are as follows:
(1) To prohibit the recruitment of professional strikebreakers by persons or agencies not involved in the labor dispute.
(2) To prohibit the employment of professional strikebreakers.
(3) To encourage and promote stable economic development.
(4) To encourage the orderly and peaceful settlement of labor disputes.
(b) It is not the purpose of this section to prohibit an employer from hiring replacements for employees involved in a labor dispute when such replacements are not professional strikebreakers.
Sec. 11-64(2). Definitions.
Labor dispute includes any controversy concerning terms, tenure or conditions of employment or concerning the association or representation of persons in negotiation, fixing, maintaining, changing or seeking to arrange terms or conditions of employment, regardless of whether the disputants stand in the proximate relation of employer and employee.
Professional strikebreaker means a person who customarily and repeatedly offers himself for employment in the place of an employee involved in a labor dispute. It shall be presumed that a person customarily and repeatedly offers himself for employment in the place of a person involved in a labor dispute when such person shall have three (3) or more times offered to take or has taken employment in the place of persons involved in a labor dispute.
Sec. 11-64(3). Supplying Strikebreakers Prohibited. No person shall recruit, procure, supply or refer any professional strikebreakers for employment in place of any employee involved in a labor dispute. But this subsection shall not be applicable to the Arizona State Employment Service or to referring employment agencies that are duly licensed by the State.
Sec. 11-64(4). Employing Strikebreakers Prohibited. No person involved in a labor dispute shall, directly or indirectly:
(a) Employ in the place of an employee involved in such dispute any professional strikebreakers; nor
(b) Contract or arrange with any other person to recruit, procure, supply or refer professional strikebreakers for employment in such dispute.
Sec. 11-64(5). Notification of Labor Dispute to the Employment Applicants. It is unlawful for any person to employ, recruit, solicit or advertise for employees, or refer persons to employment, in place of employees involved in a labor dispute, without adequate notice to such person, or in such advertisement, that there is a labor dispute at the place at which employment is offered and that the employment offered is in place of employees involved in such labor dispute.
Sec. 11-64(6). Separate Offense. The recruiting, procuring, supplying, referring or employing of each professional strikebreaker shall constitute a separate offense; and each day of employment of a professional strikebreaker shall constitute a separate offense.
Sec. 11-64(7). This section will in no way be construed to apply or interfere with any disputes or strikes that may be in progress at the time of the adoption of this section.
(Ord. No. 2951, § 1, 12-19-66)
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