ORD-20-85 PERMITS THE RECOVERY OF COST OF NUISANCE ABATEMENT AGAINST THE PROPERTY ON WHICH SAID NUISANCE IS LOCATED OR AGAINST THE PERSON WHO HAS CAUSED THE NUISANCEORDINANCE NO. 20-
85 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF ORANGE AMENDING SECTION 1.08.
020 OF THE ORANGE MUNICIPAL CODE BY
ADDING THERETO PROVISIONS PERMITTING THE
RECOVERY BY THE CITY OF THE COST OF NUISANCE
ABATE-MENT AGAINST THE PROPERTY ON WHICH
SAID NUISANCE IS LOCATED OR AGAINST THE
PERSON WHO HAS CAUSED SUCH NUISANCE TO
EXIST.WHEREAS, Sections 38773 and 38773.5 of the
California Government Code permit the City by Ordinance to make the cost
of abatement of a nuisance on a parcel of land a special
assessment against that parcel of land and a personal obligation against
the property owner;
and WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Orange desires
to insure that this provision for cost recovery for abatement
of nuisances is clearly specified by Ordinance and incorporated
in the Orange Municipal
Code.NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT HEREBY ORDAINED by the City Council
of the City of Orange that the following provision be added
to Section 1.08.020 of the Orange Municipal Code to read as
follows:Section
I:Add the following as an additional paragraph to
Section 1.08.
020:Any cost or expense to the City of Orange to
abate any nuisance or nuisances shall constitute a
lien against the property on which said nuisance
or nuisances are located or maintained and such
cost or expense of abatement by the City shall also
be a personal obligation against the property
owner.The cost to the City of abatement of any
nuisance on a parcel of land shall constitute a
special assessment against that parcel and may be
collected at the same time and in the same manner as
ordinary municipal taxes are collected, and shall be
subject to the same penalties and the same procedure
and sale in case of delinquency as provided for
ordinary municipal
taxes. "Section
II:A summary of this Ordinance shall be published and a
certified copy of the full text of this Ordinance shall be posted in
the Office of the City Clerk at least five (5) days prior to the
City Council meeting at which this Ordinance is to be adopted.
summary of this Ordinance shall also be published once within
fifteen (15) days after this Ordinance's passage in the Orange
City News, a newspaper of general circulation, published and
circulated in the City of Orange. The City Clerk shall post in
the Office of the City Clerk a certified copy of the full text of
such adopted Ordinance along with the names of those City Council
members voting for and against the Ordinance in accordance with
Government Code Section 36933. This Ordinance shall take effect
thirty (30) days from and after the date of its final passage.
ADOPTED this 28 th day of May 1985.
ATTEST:
Ci~f~e ~ange
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss
CITY OF ORANGE )
I, MARILYN J. JENSEN, City Clerk of the City of Orange,
California, do hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance was
introduced at the regular meeting of the City Council held on
the 21 st day of May , 1985, and thereafter at a
regular meeting of said City Council duly held on the 28 th day
of May , 1985, was duly passed and adopted by the
following vote, to wit:
AYES: COUNCILMEN, BARRERA, 11AYOR BEAM, PEREZ, BEYER
NOES: COUNCILMEN: NONE
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN: NONE
ABSTAIN: COUNCILMEN: SMITH ~~)~!J,*~City Cle 0 he lty of Orange
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