§ 1.12.020. Notice of abatement.

Whenever the Environmental Health Director, the Planning Director or Sheriff, or an authorized representative, determines that a nuisance exists on private property, that County officer or representative may serve a written notice to abate the nuisance by registered or certified mail upon the owner of the property and anyone known to the County officer or representative to be in possession of the property. The notice shall describe the nuisance and instruct the owner and/or possessor to abate that condition or activity. The notice shall further inform the owner and the possessor that if the nuisance is not abated within ten (10) calendar days of service of the notice, the County will abate the nuisance and demand the owner and/or possessor to pay the cost of the abatement. Cost of abatement includes the cost for actual removal or correction of the nuisance plus reasonable administrative costs. Administrative costs are the lesser of actual costs or fifteen percent of the cost of actual removal or correction. If the owner and/or possessor fail to pay such cost, that cost may be specially assessed to the parcel and shall be subject to the same collection procedures, including any lien, penalty and sale procedures that are provided for delinquent County taxes. The notice shall further state that either the owner or the possessor, or both, may request a hearing to contest the abatement action or assessment of cost by filing a written request for a hearing within ten (10) calendar days of service of the notice to abate with the County officer who ordered the abatement. Failure to request this hearing within this time period shall waive any right to appeal the County's action.

(Prior code § 1211; Ord. 2830, 06/07/83; Ord. 3161, 11/08/88)