A. Whenever any health or building official or inspector, or any police or fire officer determines that a nuisance exists on any private property or premises, the proper City official shall cause a written notice to be served personally upon the owner or person in control of the property or premises who is causing, permitting or maintaining such nuisance, which notice shall give the person served five (5) days from the date of service of the notice to abate the nuisance. Such notice shall be by means of personal service of a copy of the complaint or by certified or registered mail of a copy of the complaint. Personal service shall be by any authorized inspector from the Department of Inspections or by any police officer of the Police Department or any person authorized by law to make personal service.
B. Such notice shall fairly apprise such person of the nature of the nuisance, his duty to abate or remove the nuisance within the time provided therein, the penalty for failure to abate the same, and shall state that, if said nuisance is abated by the City, liability for necessary expenses to be incurred shall accrue as provided for in Section 8-1-17 of this Chapter. (1994 Code)
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| 1 | 2. S.H.A. 65 ILCS 5/11-60-2, power of City to define, prevent and abate nuisances. |