521.082 COST OF REMOVAL.

   (a)   The costs of removal or abatement of a public nuisance described in Section 521.08(a) to (c) shall become the personal obligation of the property owner from which such public nuisance has been removed or abated by the Health Commissioner or his/her duly appointed agent.

   (b)   The cost of removal or abatement shall be calculated by the prevailing wages of the City’s abatement personnel and their equipment cost at the time of abatement or removal. Abatement personnel may include, but are not limited to supervisory, managerial, administrative staff, technicians, machine operators, security personnel and laborers.

   (c)   The costs or charges for such removal or abatement shall be collected from the property owners by any duly appointed collection agency or agent acting on the City’s behalf as an outstanding debt owed to the City. If such cost or charges are uncollected as an outstanding debt owed to the City by any duly appointed collection agency or agent, then the costs or charges for such removal or abatement may be certified by the Health Commissioner or Board of Health to the County Auditor, to be assessed against the property and thereby made a lien upon it and collected as other taxes. (Ord. 98-381. Passed 10-7-98.)