A. Authority: The governing body shall have the power to prohibit or control the location and management of any offensive, unwholesome business or establishment in or within one mile of the city and may compel the owner of any pigsty, privy, barn, corral, furbearing animal farm, feed yard, poultry farm, or other unwholesome or nauseous house or place, to cleanse, abate or remove the same.
B. Examination Of Operation: The governing body may on its own initiative and shall, on complaint of a member of the public, examine the operation, control or location of any business or facility for the purpose of determining whether or not the operation of such business or facility should be improved so as to minimize the offensive and unwholesome characteristics or whether the business or activity should be moved or abated.
C. Notice Required: In the event that the governing body decides that the business or facility should be abated, removed or controlled, it shall notify the owner or operator of the business or facility of such fact.
D. Hearing; Action: After a hearing, the governing body may issue a limited license wherein it may prescribe the specifications and standards which must be followed by the business or facility in order to be permitted to continue in operation.
E. Abatement Or Removal: Upon a determination by the governing body that the business or facility is a nuisance, it shall have power to order the abatement or removal of the facility or establishment. If the owner fails to conform to such order, the governing body shall have power to bring all necessary legal proceedings to force removal, abatement, or adherence to standards. (1991 Code § 5.36.040, as amended)