(A) Persons who violate this chapter by failing to obey any lawful order issued by the Police Chief to abate a chronic nuisance within 30 days, or to provide a written plan to abate the nuisance activities within ten days, are subject to the following:
(1) First offense: guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree;
(2) Second and subsequent offenses: guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree; and
(3) Each day’s continuation of a violation or failure to comply is a separate offense.
(B) Citations for nuisance activities shall be imposed based on the following: number of bills for enforcement delivered to a premises owner for a specific premises within a two-year period beginning on the date of the nuisance activity that is the subject of the first bill for the cost of enforcement delivered to the premises owner for that specific premises occurred.
(C) Whenever a premises owner has been billed on three more separate dates within the two-year period beginning with the date of the nuisance activity that is the subject of the first bill for the cost of enforcement sent to the premises owner for that specific premises, the Police Chief must issue a citation to the premises owner as follows:
(1) Fourth bill: $250 assessment against the premises;
(2) Fifth bill: $500 assessment against the premises;
(3) Sixth bill: $750 assessment against the premises; and
(4) For each bill incurred after the sixth, a $1,000 assessment will be placed against the premises.
(Ord. 911, passed 4-19-2021)