HomeMy WebLinkAbout1856ORDINANCE NO. / ".
AN ORDINANCE amending Ordinance No. 1225 (Port
Angeles Municipal Code, Chapter 8.16) regula-
ting weed, vegetable and horticultural growth
upon private property obstructing streets and
sidewalks and creating a menace to public
health, safety and welfare.
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Port Angeles
desires to decrease the time required to effect the removal of
weeds and accumulated trash from the City's streets and side-
walks;
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Port
Angeles do ordain as follows:
Section 1: That portion of Section 3 of Ordinance No.
1225 of the City of Port Angeles, codified under the Port
Angeles Municipal Code as 8.16.040, is hereby amended to read
as follows:
8.16.040 Nuisance - Resolution. If, at the
time fixed in the notice provided for in Section
8.16.030 or thereafter, the city council shall
determine that the condition complained of should
be corrected, it shall adopt a resolution declar-
ing such condition to be a public nuisance, which
resolution requires the owner or occupant of such
premises to correct such condition, by removing,
destroying, changing or controlling such weeds,
vegetable or horticultural growth, or by taking
such other and further steps as may be necessary
to eliminate such nuisance, and provides that in
the event of the failure of the owner or occupant
of such premises, to correct such condition within
ten days from the date of such resolution, the same
will be corrected by the City at the expense
of such owner or occupant, and that the cost there-
of shall be and remain a lien upon such premises
until paid. Such resolution shall describe the
premises involved by either street address or
legal description and briefly describe the con-
dition found to be a nuisance.
Section 2: Section 4 of Ordinance No. 1225 of the City
of Port Angeles, codified under the Port Angeles Municipal Code
as 8.16.050, is hereby amended to read as follows:
8.16.050 Service of notice of resolution - Removal
by city - Lien. It shall be the duty of the chief
of the fire department to forthwith, upon the pass-
ing of a resolution, as provided in Section 8.16.040,
mail by United States mail, addressed to the owner
or occupant of such premises, at his last -known post
office address, a copy of such resolution, which
shall be due and legal notice to such owner or occu-
pant to correct such condition as provided in this
chapter. Upon the failure of any such owner or occu-
pant to so correct such condition for a period of
ten days, the city may proceed to correct such con-
dition at the cost and expense of such owner or occu-
pant, and such cost and expense shall be and remain
a lien in the amount thereof upon the premises des-
cribed in the resolution in favor of the city until
paid.
PASSED by the City Council of the City of Port Angeles
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and approved by its Mayor at a regular meeting of the Council
held on the day of , 1975.
ATTEST:
Marian C. Parrish, City Clerk
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Approved as to form:
PUBLISHED: / ?7
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C. Vernon Basom, Mayor