The City Manager is hereby authorized to abate such a nuisance under the following alternative and supplemental procedure:
(A) The City Manager may serve notice upon the owner or person in charge of the property upon which the squatter camp is located. The notice shall be in writing and must be signed by the City Manager, must be served upon the owner or the person in charge of the property upon which the squatter camp is located according to the provisions of Cal. Code of Civil Procedure § 1162. The notice shall require that the squatter camp be completely abandoned, abated, closed and vacated and demolished within three days from the date of service of notice upon the owner or operator or person in charge thereof. Failure or refusal on the part of any such owner or person in charge of the squatter camp to abate, vacate and close it in compliance with the written notice shall constitute a violation of this chapter.
(B) Upon the failure or refusal on the part of the owner or person in charge of the land upon which the squatter camp is located to act within 14 days, the City Manager may post notices notifying all persons that the squatter camp is condemned as a public nuisance and that all persons shall immediately vacate the premises upon which the squatter camp space is located. Any person who shall thereafter enter in or upon or make any use of the squatter camp shall be guilty of a violation of this chapter.
(C) In case the City Manager is unable to ascertain or find the owner of the land upon which any squatter camp is located, or where no person is in charge of the same, or where the owner of the land refuses to act, as an alternative procedure, the City Manager may notify all squatters within the squatter camp that the same has been condemned and to remove therefrom immediately. In addition to the oral notification, the City Manager shall post a written notice in a conspicuous place, within the squatter camp, notifying all squatters to forthwith and immediately remove there from and vacate the squatter camp. Failure or refusal of any person to comply with the notice shall be a violation of this chapter.
(D) Notwithstanding the notice provisions herein, and in addition to any other remedy available, in order to prevent loss of life or serious injury in the case of a person or persons squatting within the right of way of any existing railroad track, violators of this section shall be immediately removed and relocated from the right of way. The City Manager is authorized to develop any regulations to address the storage and/or disposal of property remaining in the railroad right of way, whether abandoned or not.
(1995 Code, § 7.52.060) (Ord. 2023-04, passed 4-4-2023; Ord. 06-2012, passed - -2006)