City Code Sec 27-2
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Sec. 27-2. Definitions.
(a)	For purposes of this article, a "nuisance" is defined as any condition, substance, material or thing which may be annoying, obnoxious, offensive, irritating or detrimental or potentially hazardous or detrimental to the health, safety, comfort and general welfare of the public or the environment, including, but not limited to, refuse, trash, rubbish, debris, junk, garbage, containers, wire, glass, wood, ashes, animal matter, vegetable matter, human and animal wastes, and odors.
(b)	For purposes of this article, a "person" is defined as any individual, firm, owner, sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, unincorporated association, governmental body, municipal corporation, executor, administrator, trustee, guardian, agent, occupant or other legal entity.
(c)	For purposes of this article, "vegetable matter" is defined as any grass, weeds, bushes, underbrush, poison ivy, poison oak or any other vegetable matter which has grown to sufficient height and cover or to a height of more than twelve (12) inches or accumulated so as to provide cover or harborage or potential cover or harborage for rodents or vermin.
(Ord. No. 39,649, § 2, 6-22-99)
Sec. 27-3. Enforcement.
(a)	The director of public health or his designee is hereby vested with the authority to require the abatement of any and all conditions in the city which constitute a nuisance or are detrimental to the public health, safety or welfare or the environment.
(b)	It shall be the duty of the director of public health or his designee to have made continuous sanitary inspections of all parts of the city and to cause all nuisances to be abated; and when necessary, to institute legal proceedings therefor and for the recovery of expenses incurred by the city in abating any nuisance.
(c)	Any law enforcement officer, fire marshal or any of his assistants, fire inspectors, or sworn special police officer, is authorized and shall have authority to enforce all provisions of this chapter.
(Ord. No. 39,649, § 2, 6-22-99)
Editor's note: Ord. No. 39,649, § 1, adopted June 22, 1999, repealed provisions formerly codified as §§ 27-4 and 27-5, which provided for inspections by city police and provided that the executor, trustee, agent, etc., will be deemed owner of property for purposes of this chapter, and which derived from Ord. No. 38,340, adopted May 14, 1996.
Sec. 27-6. Notice of Violation.
(a)	Whenever it shall come to the knowledge of the director of public health or his designee, or persons specified in section 27-3(c), that there exists upon any land or premises in the city any nuisance, such person shall serve, post, mail or deliver a notice to any of the following to cause such nuisance to be abated from such land or premise within forty-eight (48) hours or in the time limit set forth in the notice:
(1)	The person causing or creating the nuisance;
(2)	The person allowing the nuisance to remain or continue;
(3)	The occupant of the land or premises; and/or
(4)	The owner of the land or premises.
Proof of such service, delivery, mailing or posting shall be sufficient evidence of such service of notice.