§ 8.04.120. Abatement

A. In addition to, or as an alternative to, prosecution as provided in Section 8.04.110, the public officer may seek to remedy violations of this chapter in the following manner. If a person to whom a notice has been sent pursuant to Section 8.04.100 has neither alleviated the conditions causing the alleged violation nor requested a hearing before the governing body within the time periods specified in Section 8.04.100, the public officer may present a resolution to the governing body for adoption authorizing the public officer or other agents of the city to abate the conditions causing the violation at the end of twenty (20) days after passage of the resolution. The resolution shall further provide that the costs incurred by the city shall be charged against the person in violation as provided in Section 8.04.160

B. A copy of the resolution shall be served upon the person in violation in one of the following ways:

1. Personal service upon the person in violation;

2. Service be certified mail, postage prepaid, return receipt requested; or

3. In the event the whereabouts of such person are unknown and the same cannot be ascertained in the exercise of reasonable diligence, an affidavit to that effect shall be made by the public officer and filed with the city clerk, and the serving of the resolution shall be made by publishing the same once each week for two consecutive weeks in the official city newspaper and by posting a copy of the resolution on the premises where such conditions exist.

(Prior code § 8-211)