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ORDINANCE NO. 572
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
BEAUMONT, CALIFORNIA ESTABLISHING MINIMUM PROPERTY
MAINTENANCE REQUIREMENTS TO CONTROL NUISANCES
WHEREAS, the City Council has determined that it is in the
public interest to upgrade the appearance of the community; and
WHEREAS, the City Council has determined that the accumula-
tion of debris may be dangerous to the public health, safety and
welfare; and
WHEREAS, the City Council has determined that unsightly
conditions may be detrimentalto neighboring properties;
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Beaumont,
California, DOES ORDAIN as follows:
SECTION I - PROPERTY MAINTENANCE REQUIREMENTS.
A. VIOLATIONS - No person owning, renting, leasing,
occupying or having charge or possession of any premises in any
residential zone district in the City of Beaumont, shall maintain
such premises in such manner that any of the following nuisances
exist:
1. Buildings which have been abandoned, partially
destroyed, or left in a state of partial construction for a period
of time that exceeds 180 days.
2. Buildings that, because of improper maintenance,
result in dry rot, warping or termit infestation.
3. Dead, decayed, diseased vegetation or debris:
a. constituting unsightly appearance, or
b. danger to public health, safety or welfare,
or
c. causing eyesore detriment to nearby property
and/or effecting property values.
4. Abandoned, inoperative or unlicensed motor
vehicles, trailers, campers, boats, and/or other mobile equipment
being either a single item or any combination of the above, that
is:
form of:
a. stored to the front or side of any main
structure or building;
b. not stored entirely within an enclosed
structure;
c. Not screened from view by a sight obscuring
fence or wall not less than six feet in
height.
5. Attractive nuisances dangerous to children in the
a. abandoned and broken equipment, machinery
or motor vehicles;
b. hazardous pools, ponds or excavations;
c. collections of building materials.
6. Broken or discarded or stored furniture and other
household appliances not entirely stored within an enclosed
structure.
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7. Clothes lines and/or hanging of clothes in front
yards.
8. Garbage cans stored in front yards when visible
from public streets except when placed on scheduled days of
collection in compliance with all applicable statutes and regu-
lations of the City of Beaumont.
9. Packing boxes or other stored goods in yards.
10. Maintenance of premises in such conditions as to
be detrimental to public health, safety or general welfare or in
such a manner as to constitute a public nuisance.
11. Property including but not limited to building
exteriors maintained in such conditions as to become defective,
unsightly, or in such condition of deterioration or disrepair that
the same causes diminution of the property values of neighboring
properties.
12. Maintenance of premises so out of harmony or
conformity with the maintenance standards of adjacent properties
as to cause substantial diminution of the enjoyment, use or pro-
perty values of such properties.
13. Maintenance of drainage facilities, such as
terrace drains, down drains and catch basins, in such a condition
so as to cause the damming or leaking of the drainage facilities
and consequent interference with the disposal of stormwater.
14. Ponding of surface water at or near the top of
a slope so as to cause saturation of the ground and subsequent
weakening of the slope.
15. The spilling of stormwater or the disposal of
water from swimming pools, ornamental ponds, waterfalls, and
similar facilities over the top of a slope, either directly onto
the ground or onto adjacent properties unless directed into an
approved terrace drain facility.
16. Maintenance of slope vegetation in such a condi-
tion as to cause erosion or failure of a slope; or the lack of
slope vegetation necessary to prevent slope erosion or failure.
17. Rodent burrows in and near the top of a slope
which, because of their depth and number, cause saturation and
weakening of the slope and area near the top of the slope.
18. Land, the topography, geology or configuration
of which, as a result of grading or excavation operations, causes
erosion, subsidence or surface water runoff problems of such
magnitude as to be injurious or potentially injurious to the publi
health, safety and welfare or to adjacent properties.
19. Trees, shrubs or other landscaping materials that
inhibit visibility or pose a threat by reason of hazardous condi-
tion to pedestrians, motoring public or to other property.
B. NOTICE OF VIOLATION - Any person violating any of the
provisions of this ordinance shall be allowed fifteen (15) working
days from receiving written notice from the City to eliminate the
violation before being issued a citation.
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C. PENALTY - Any person who violates any provision of
this ordinance shall be guilty of an infraction, pursuant to the
provisions of Government Code Section 36900 and the penalties
provided therein, and upon conviction thereof shall be punishable
by a fine in the amount of:
$ 25.00 to $ 50.00 First Conviction
$ 100.00 Second Conviction (within 1 year)
$ 250.00 Third Conviction (within 1 year)
D. CUMULATIVE REMEDY - The remedies prescribed herein
are intended to be in addition to any other procedures or penalties
prescribed by law.
SECTION II - SEVERABILITY
If any section, subsection, sentence clause, phrase or por-
tion of this ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or
unconstitutional by the decision of any court of competent juris-
diction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the
remaining portions of this ordinance. The City Council of the Cit
of Beaumont hereby declares that it would have adopted this
ordinance and each section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase
or portions thereof irrespective of the fact that any one or more
sections, subsections, sentences, clauses, phrases or portions be
declared invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION III
The Mayor shall sign this ordinance and the City Clerk shall
attest thereto and shall within fifteen (15) days of its adoption
cause it or a summary of it to be published once in the Record -
Gazette, a newspaper published and circulated in the City of
Beaumont and thereupon and thereafter this ordinance shalltake
effect and be in force according to law.
MOVED, PASSED AND ADOPTED this
1983.
ATTEST:
CITY CLE KI
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',.MAYOR OF THE CITY OF BEAUMCNT
25th day
July
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CERTIFICATION
I, Irene Joyce Sweeney, City Clerk of the City of Beaumont DO
HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance was introduced at a
regular meeting of the City Council of said City held on the llth
day of July , 1983, and was duly adopted upon second
reading on the 25th day of July , 1983, upon the followi
roll call vote:
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AYES: Councilmen May, Shaw, Hammel, Lowry and Mayor Thompson.
NOES: None.
ABSTAIN: None.
ABSENT: None.
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44.60
CITY CL"i� t/ C Y OF BEAU, ONT
APPROVED AS TO FORM AND CONTENT:
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