(a) (1) When the Service Director is required to give notice to the owner or occupant of any private property to carry out any of the provisions of this chapter, such notice shall be in writing, shall state the particular thing or things which the Director requires the owner to do, shall state the time within which the work is to be performed, and shall contain a statement notifying such owner or occupant that if the work ordered done by such notice is not done according to the terms of, or within the time specified in, such notice, that such work may be done by the City or by contract, that the entire cost thereof shall be charged to the owner and that the City may take civil action against the owner to collect all costs due and/or prosecute the owner for failure to comply with the order of the Director. The Director is hereby authorized to cause the abatement of such nuisance condition.
(2) The notice may be served by delivering it personally to the owner, or leaving it at the owner's usual place of business or residence, by mailing it to the owner's place of residence by certified mail, or by posting it in a conspicuous place on the real estate involved, or by publishing it once in a newspaper of general circulation within the City if it cannot be served in any of the other ways above mentioned.
(b) If such work is done by contract, the entire cost shall be determined by adding fifteen percent to the actual contract cost as a reasonable charge to pay for the cost of supervision by the Director, the service of notice, inspection and/or other factors incidental to the completion of the work.
(c) If such work has been done by regular employees of the City, the entire cost shall be determined and arrived at as follows:
(1) The time expended thereon by employees shall be charged at the same hourly rate that such employees' wages or salaries cost the City.
(2) Fifteen percent shall be added to the time-cost so found as a reasonable overhead charge to pay for the cost of supervision by the Director, the City's equipment, the service of notice, inspection and/or other factors incidental to the completion of the work.
(Ord. 2002-23. Passed 6-17-2002.)