1531ORDINANCE NO. 1531
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM AMENDING
TITLE 6 OF THE ANAHEIM MUNICIPAL CODE BY ADDING
THERETO A NEW CHAPTER, ENTITLED "CHAPTER 6.17,
CLEANLINESS OF PREMISES --ALTERNATIVE PROVISIONS,"
AND INCLUDING THEREUNDER SECTIONS 6.17.001 TO
6.17.120, BOTH INCLUSIVE.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM DOES ORDAIN
AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1:
That Title 6 of the Anaheim Municipal Code be, and the
same is hereby, amended by adding thereto anew_chapter entitled
"CHAPTER 6.17, CLEANLINESS OF PREMISES --ALTERNATIVE PROVISIONS,"
and including thereunder Sections 6.17.001 to 6.17.120, both
inclusive, reading as follows:
"CHAPTER 6.17, CLEANLINESS OF PREMISES --ALTERNATIVE
PROVISIONS.
"SECTION 6.17.00I DIRT, RUBBISH, WEEDS AND RANK GROWTH --
A NUISANCE.
It is hereby declared to be a nuisance and it shall be
unlawful for any owner, lessee or occupant of any buildings,
grounds, lots or real property within the corporate limits of
the City of Anaheim to fail to remove and keep such premises
and the street or streets on which such property is located,
free from dirt, rubbish, weeds and rani growth as provided
for in Section 6.17.030 of this Chapter.
"SECTION 6.17.010 ALTERNATIVE PROCEDURE.
In addition to the provisions of Chapter 6.16 the
following provisions shall provide an alternative procedure
for the removal and eradication of dirt, rubbish, weeds,
and rank growth from buildings, grounds or lots, or any
real property within the corporate limits of the City of
Anaheim.
"SECTION 6.17.020 tRUBBISHt DEFINED.
The term RUBBISH as used in this chapter is defined to
mean dead trees and shrubs, as well as any other useless or
worthless stuff which serves no good purpose, and is fit only
to be thrown away.
"SECTION 6.17.030 PREMISES AND ADJACENT STREETS TO BE KEPT
FREE OF DIRT, RUBBISH, WEEDS, RANK GROWTH.
It is hereby made the duty of any owner, lessee or
occupant of any buildings, grounds or lots, or any real
property within the corporate limits of the City of Anaheim,
to keep such buildings, grounds, lots 6r--re$l property free
from, and remove all dirt, rubbish, weeds and rank growth
from the buildings, grounds, lots, and real property, and
to keep the street or streets upon which such buildings,
grounds, lots or real property is located free from, and
remove all grass, weeds, rubbish, rank -growth and vegetation
from the outer edge of such street or streets adjoining such
real property up to the center line of such street or streets.
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"SECTION 6.17.04 0 FAILURE TO KEEP PREMISES AND ADJACENT
STREETS CLEAN --NOTICE TO CLEAN.
If any owner, lessee or occupant of such buildings,
grounds, tots or real property shall fail to remove and
keep such premises and the street or streets upon which
the property is located, free from dirt, rubbish, weeds,
and rank growth, as provided for in Section 6.17.030 of
this chapter, the Superintendent of Streets or the Chief
of the Fire Department of the City of Anaheim shall notify
such owner, lessee or occupant to comply with the provisions
of this chapter, and eradicate and remove all dirt, rubbish,
weeds and rank growth from the buildings, grounds, lots or
real property, or all the dirt, rubbish, weeds, rank growth
and vegetation from the street or streets that adjoin the
buildings, lots, grounds or real property owned or controlled
by such owner, lessee, or occupant, to wit: All of such
buildings, grounds, lots or real property, and all that
portion of such street or streets between the outer edge
adjoining such real property up to the center line of such
street or itreets.
"SECTION 6.17.050 NOTICE TO CLEAN--CONTENTS--SERVICE.
When the Superintendent of Streets or the Chief of the
Fire Department of the City of Anaheim determines to notify
the owner, lessee or occupant to comply with the provisions
of this chapter, such notice shall be in writing, which notice
shall contain a description of the buildings, grounds, lots
or real property, from which the dirt, rubbish, weeds or rank
growth are to be removed, or the streot adjoining such premises
from which such dirt, rubbish weeds, rank growth or vegetation
is to be removed, or both, which notice shall be served upon
the owner of said premises, if known, and upon the lessee or
occupant of said premises, which notice shall be served by
depositing said notice, postage paid, in the United States
Post Office in the City of Anaheim, directed to the owner of
said premises, if known, and a copy thereof shall be mailed
to the lessee or occupant of said premises. If the owner is
not known, or resides outside the State of California, said
noLice shall be given by posting a copy thereof conspicuously
on the property to be affected, for ten days, which service
of notice shall be deemed to be completed ten days after posting.
Such notice shall specify that if the provisions of Section
6.17.030 of this chapter are not complied with in ten days
from the time of this service of said notice, the Superintendent
of Streets or the Chief of the Fire Department of the City of
Anaheim shall report such failure to the City Council.
"SECTION 6.17.060 REPORT TO CITY COUNCIL --NOTICE OF PUBLIC
HEARING.
At any time after the expiration of ten days after the
service of the written notice in any manner prescribed in
Section 6.17.050, the Superintendent of streets or the Fire
Chief of the City of Anaheim shall report to the City Council.
The report shall indicate whether or not the dirt, rubbish,
weeds and rank growth have been removed or eradicated from
the buildings, grounds, lots, or real property described in
the written notice required under Section 6.17.050. If the
said dirt, rubbish, weeds, and rank growth have not been
eradicated or removed, the City Council shall thereupon set
a date for public hearing before the Council. The City Clerk
shall thereupon be directed to mail written notice of the
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public hearing to all persons owning the buildings, grounds,
lots or real property from which the dirt, rubbish, weeds and
rank growth are to be eradicated and removed. The City Clerk
shall cause such written notice to be mailed to each person to
whom such described property is assessed in the last equalized
assessment roll available on the date the notice is mailed
by the City Clerk. The address of the owners shown on the
assessment roll shall be conclusively deemed to b -a the proper
address for the purpose of mailing such notice. Such notice
mailed by the City Clerk shall be mailed at least five days
prior to the date set by the City Council for public hearing.
Prior to the date fixed for said hearing, the Superintendent
of Streets or the Fire Chief of the City of Anaheim shall
prepare and file with the City Clerk for the consideration of
the City Council an estimate of the cost of the removal of
said dirt, rubbish, weeds and rank growth and the abatement
of said nuisance, and at such hearing the City Council shall
find anis determine the estimated cost of abating said nuisance.
VtSECTION 6.17.070 HEARING, CONTINUANCES.
At the time stated in the notices, the City Council shall
hear and consider all objections to the proposed removal of
weeds, rubbish, refuse and dirt. It may continue the hearing
from time to time.
'SECTION 6.17.080 RULING ON OBJECTIONS, JURISDICTION TO
PROCEED.
By motion or resolution at the conclusion of the hearing
the City Council shall allow or overrule any objections. At
that time the City Council acquires jurisdiction to proceed
and perform the work of removal.
"SECTION 6.17.0,90 FINALITY OF DECISION.
The decision of the City Council Is final.
"SEC"TION 6.17.100 ABATEMENT ORDERED.
If objections have not been made.or after the City Council
has disposed of those made, it shall order the Superintendent
or the Fire Chief to abate the nuisance by having the weeds,
rubbish, refuse and dirt removed. The order shall be made by
motion or resolution. Upon the abatement of said nuisance by
the Superintendent or the Fire Chief the cost of such removal
shall be certified to the County Auditor on or before the
30th day of June following the date of such abatement, and
shall became a lien on said property from which said weeds,
rubbish, refuse and dirt are removed, and shall be placed upon
the tax roll to be collected with general taxes levied and
assessed against said property.
ffSECTION 6.17.110 ENTRY TO ABATE.
The Superintendent or Fire Chief may enter upon private
property to abate the nuisance.
"SECTION 6.17.120 ABATEMENT BY OWNER.
Before the Superintendent or Fire Chief arrives, any
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property owner may remove the weeds, rubbish, refuse and
dirt at his own expense."
SECTION 2!
The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this
Ordinance and shall cause the same to be printed once within
fifteen (15) days after its adoption, in the Anaheim Bulletin,
a newspaper of general circulation, printed, published and
circulated in said City, and thirty (30) days from,and after
Its final passage it shall take effect and be in full force.
THE FOREGOING ORDINANCE is approved and signed by
me th i s , 20th day of December , 19 60
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MAYOR OF THF CITY OF ANAHEIM
ATTEST:
C1TY CLERK OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM
STATE OF CALIFORNIA)
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss.
CITY OF ANAHEIM )
I, DENS M. WILLIAMS, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do hereby
certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 1531 was introduced at a regular
meeting of the City Council of the City of Anaheim held on the 13th day of
December, 1960, and that the same was duly passed and adopted at an ad-
journed regular meeting of said City Council held on the 20th day of
December, 1960, by the following vote of the members thereof:
AYES: COUNCILMEN: Chandler, Coons, Fry, Thompson and Schutte
NOES: COUNCILMEEN: None
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN: None
AND I FURTHER CERTIFY that the Mayor of the City of Anaheim
approved and signed said Ordinance No. 1531 on the 20th day of December, 1960.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
official seal of the City of Anaheim this 20th day of December, 1960.
CITY CLERK OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM
( SEAL) I, DENE M. WILLIAMS, CITY CLERK OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM
DO HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THE FOREGJ'NG ORDINANCE
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