(a) No property owner, tenant or person having control of property within the City directly or indirectly shall create or allow nuisance conditions to exist on his or her premises.
(b) As used in this section, "nuisance conditions" means:
(1) Any building in such a state of incompletion, lack of repair or maintenance as to be a hazard to the health, safety or welfare of its occupants or the public or which will become a blighting or deteriorating factor in the neighborhood, or will impair or adversely affect the value of neighboring property;
(2) Any open, unguarded or unprotected excavation or building which, when abandoned or left open or otherwise unprotected, will likely prove dangerous to life or limb, or an abandoned, open, uncovered or otherwise unprotected well, cesspool, cistern or catch basis; and
(3) The existence of any front or side yard of a building in a residential district which is unimproved by sod or other planting, or is so neglected as to permit weeds or other deleterious, unhealthful growths or noxious matter, rubbish, stones or debris to accumulate so as to become a blighting or deteriorating factor in the neighborhood.
(c) In addition to the penalty prescribed in Section 1442.99, if the Building Commissioner finds that any such nuisance condition exists, he or she shall report such fact to Council, which may thereupon declare such building or structure to be a nuisance. Council may specify, upon the advice of the Building Commissioner, what reasonable repairs or maintenance measures are necessary to abate such nuisance.
(d) Upon such finding and declaration, the Director of Public Service and Properties may proceed in the manner provided by Section 1460.08 for the abatement of nuisances, or the Building Commissioner may order the owner of such building or structure to make such repairs or take such maintenance measures within a reasonable time. No person shall fail to comply with such an order.
(Ord. 61-69. Passed 10-16-1961.)
(e) The failure to maintain driveway and parking areas free of hazards is hereby declared to be a nuisance. Driveways and parking areas shall be kept free of all nuisances and any hazards to the safety of occupants, pedestrians, operators of motor vehicles thereon, and other persons utilizing the premises, and shall be maintained free of unsanitary conditions, and upon notice from the Building Commissioner, the owner or lessee of such premises shall promptly remove and abate such nuisance. It shall be the duty of the owner or operator of such premises to keep the premises free of such hazards which shall include, but are not limited to, the following:
(1) Refuse such as broken glass, garbage, trash, litter and debris.
(2) Natural growth such as brush, weeds, ragweed, tree stumps, roots and obnoxious growths, limbs or other natural growths which, by reason of rotting or deteriorating or casualties from storms or otherwise, constitute hazards to the safe use thereof.
(3) Ground surfaces shall be free of hazards or unsanitary conditions and free of holes or broken or missing pavement or scaling surfaces, or loose stones or breaks or obstructions or uncleared snow or ice.
(4) The owner or operator of the premises shall be responsible to take reasonable steps to discover any safety hazards or unsanitary conditions which may exist and shall correct and abate and eliminate such hazards as set forth in divisions (e)(1), (2) or (3) hereof.
(5) Parking areas and driveways shall be maintained in accordance with the provisions set forth in Chapter 844 of the Business Regulation and Taxation Code and in accordance with the provisions of the Section 1498.07 of the Building and Housing Code.
(Ord. 85-5. Passed 1-7-1985.)
(f) A separate offense shall be deemed committed each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues.
(1982 Code, § 1359.01)