§ 13-20. Habitual nuisance offenders, penalties.

Whoever shall be found to be a habitual offender of any ordinance prohibiting the maintenance of a nuisance upon or adjacent to property owned or occupied by the offender shall be subject to this section and shall be fined the sum of five hundred dollars ($500.00), together with all cost of court and all cost incurred in abatement of the nuisance. A habitual offender under this section shall be any real or juridical person who has been cited for a violation of section 5-79, section 8-61, et seq., section 9-16, et seq., section 11-16, et seq., section 12-90, et seq., section 15-125, or any other ordinance enacted to address noxious conditions within the corporate limits, or where the city has been compelled to enter upon such property to perform abatement operations on two separate occasions within a twelve-month period.

The determination of whether there has been a violation of this section shall be made by the city council at a public hearing with the offender having been provided with not less than ten (10) days written notice, and if such a determination is made and confirmed, the matter shall be referred to the city prosecutor for prosecution.

(Ord. No. 07-14, 10-2-07)

Editor's note

Ord. No. 07-14, adopted Oct. 2, 2007, set out provisions intended for use as § 13-19. For purposes of classification, to conform to the style of this Code and at the editor's discretion, these provisions have been included as § 13-20.