Needles Municipal Code § 16-28 Same--Summary Procedure For Urgent Public Nuisance

In the event of an “urgent” public nuisance, it shall be the duty of the building official of the city to notify the owner of any lot or premises to abate the same of all rubbish, refuse, debris, waste materials, and other matter including but not limited to rocks, bricks, soil, cement, building materials, machinery or parts thereof, tools, scrap metal and other pieces of metal, ferrous or nonferrous, furniture or parts thereof, inoperative vehicles or parts thereof, vegetation, cans, boxes, barrels, bottles, whether full or not, or stores of commercial supplies, and other matter whether useable or not. Such notice shall be in writing and shall be delivered to the owner, personally, or shall be conspicuously posted on such lot or premises and if such owner shall neglect so to do, for forty-eight hours after the service or posting of such notice, then the building official shall cause the lot or premises to be cleared of all such rubbish, refuse, debris, waste soil, cement, building materials, machinery or parts thereof, tools, scrap metal and other pieces of metal, ferrous or nonferrous, furniture or parts thereof, inoperative vehicles or parts thereof, vegetation, cans, boxes, barrels, bottles, whether full or not, or stores of commercial supplies, and other matter whether useable or not, and the nuisance to be abated and the expense of such clearing, together with an inspection fee of fifty dollars shall be a lien on said lot. The procedure to be followed with respect to the assessment of the foregoing expense and fee shall be the same as those set forth in Section 16-26 of this article. The word “urgent” public nuisance as employed in this article shall mean whatever is a menace to public health or safety or whatever constitutes a fire hazard under conditions which would be judicially determined to be a nuisance per se or a nuisance in fact or where the destruction or removal of the objectionable items is reasonably necessary under the circumstances to prevent immediate harm to the public. (Ord. 9-AC; Ord. 188-AC)

Any person, partnership, firm or corporation whether as principal, agent, employee, or otherwise, interfering, obstructing, or preventing or causing the interference, obstruction or prevention, of or with, the enforcement or performance of any of the provisions of this article by the building official, the street superintendent or other authorized person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punishable by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for a term not to exceed six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. (Ord. 9-AC; Ord. 188-AC)