The Board of Health shall have power and authority to require any person or persons owning property within the city to remove all offensive, dangerous, and deleterious matter from said premises, and to that end shall have power and authority to enter upon any premises or in any building in the city to examine the same, and in case there is found to be any offensive, dangerous, deleterious matter on said premises, or in said building, may direct in writing the removal thereof; and if such person or persons shall neglect or refuse to do so for a period of 24 hours after such notice, he or she, upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to the penalties as set in § 10.99, together with the expenses of removing such nuisance and costs of prosecution, and it is hereby made the duty of the Chief of Police, under the direction of the Board of Health, to remove and abate such nuisance immediately upon the expiration of 24 hours after the notice aforesaid.
(Prior Code, § 6-1-2)