§ 30-27. Notice to remove nuisances and menaces.  


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  • Whenever the town commission shall make a factual determination in any open, public session, whether regularly scheduled or called by reason of emergency, that a nuisance and menace to public health, safety and welfare shall exist on any lands or premises within the town, the town commission may require by resolution duly adopted that the nuisance and menace to public health, safety and welfare be cleaned or cleared by the owner and/or possessor of the lands or premises in accordance with such resolution and by date certain. The resolution shall set forth the factors and circumstances giving rise to the nuisance and menace to public health, safety and welfare, shall set a date for compliance with the terms of this article, and shall provide for reasonable notice and demand to be furnished to the owner or possessor of the property in question in the following manner:

    (1)

    A copy of the resolution accompanied by a written demand for compliance with the terms of this article shall be served upon the owner and/or possessor of the land in question by registered United States mail directed to him at his address as shown on the current tax rolls of the town or of the county. This written demand shall notify the owner and/or possessor that if such demand shall not be complied with within the time set forth, he may be prosecuted in accordance with this article.

    (2)

    If the town commission cannot readily determine the owner and/or possessor of the lands or premises in question, or if the owner and/or possessor of such lands or premises cannot be located or an address determined for him, the town commission may publish its resolution and written demand one time in any newspaper of general circulation in the area in which the lands or premises shall be located.

(Code 1999, § 34-37; Ord. No. 84-3, § 7, 7-10-1984)