Whenever any authorized municipal officer finds that a nuisance exists, such officer has the authority to determine on a case-by-case basis whether to utilize the nuisance abatement procedure described in Section 50.05 of this chapter or the municipal infraction procedure referred to in Section 50.06.
With regard to the nuisance enumerated in Section 50.02(38) (Nuisance Houses), property owners will be notified after the first determination by a police officer that conditions exist posing a nuisance and that a second determination of this kind will immediately constitute the failure to abate a nuisance as outlined in Section 50.05(8), subjecting the property owner to applicable fines.
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 364.12[3h])