Every building or structure found by the City Council or the Council’s designee, or by the building official, to be a dangerous or nuisance building, or otherwise in violation of this chapter, is hereby declared to create a condition tending to reduce the value of private property, to promote blight, deterioration and unsightliness, to invite plundering, to create fire hazards, to constitute an attractive nuisance creating a hazard to the health and safety of minors, to create a harborage for rodents and insects, and to be injurious to the health, safety and general welfare of the inhabitants of the city. Therefore, the presence of any building or structure in violation of this chapter is hereby declared to constitute a public nuisance which may be abated in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
(Ord. 542, passed 11-10-2014; Ord. 547, passed 4-13-2015)