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HomeMy Public PortalAboutOrd. 1125 ORDINANCE N0. 1125 ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF LYNWOOD AMENDING VARIOUS SECTIONS OF THE LYNWOOD CITY CODE AND ORDINANCE N0. 570 RELATIVE TO NUISANCE ABATEMENT AND PREVENTION The City Council of the City of Lynwood hereby does ordain as follows: Section l: Section 21-19 of the Lynwood City Code is amended to read as follows: Sec. 21-1g hearing and decision. (a) At the time stated in the notice, the Council shall hear and consider all relevent evidence, objections or protests and shall receive sworn testimony from owners, witnesses, city personnel and interested persons relative to such alleged nuisance and to proposed rehabilitation, repair or demolition of such premises. Such hearing may be continued from time to time. (b) The owner o£ the affected premises shall be entit-led to be represented by counsel at such hearing, and may cross examine witnesses. (c) Upon the conclusion of the hearing, the Council shall, based upon such hearing, determine whether the premises or any part thereof, as maintained, constitutes a nuisance as defined in this article. If the Council Finds that such a nuisance exists and that there is sufficient cause to abate it by rehabilitation, demolition or repair, the Council may by resolution declare such premises to be a nuisance and order such abatement of the same by the property owner within thirty (30) days. Such resolution shall contain findings sufficient to indicate the basis of the Council's decision, and a detailed list of needed corrections and abatement methods. Section 2: Section 21-21 of the Lynwood City Code is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 21-21. Abatement by City. If such a nuisance is not completely abated by the owner as directed. within such thirty (30) day period, the City may immediately cause the same to be abated by City personnel or private contractor, and such personnel or persons under contract are expressly authorized to enter upon the premises for such purposes. The owner of the premises shall be liable to the City for all costs of such abatement, including all administrative costs. Section 3: Section 21-38 (a) of the Lynwood City Code is hereby amended to read as follows: (a) Previously Defined Acts Conditions: Any act or condition found to be a nuisance pursuant to Chapter 21, Article II of this Code. Section 4: Section 21-38 (i) 15 is amended to read as follows: Property including but not limited to building exteriors which are maintained in such condition as to become so defective, unsightly, or in such condition of deterioration or disrepair that the same causes appreciable diminuition of the property values of surrounding property or is materially detrimental to proximal propertie^ and improvements. This includes, but is not limited to, the keeping or disposing of or the scattering over the property or premises of any of the following: (i) Lumber, junk, trash or debris; (ii) Abandoned, discarded or unused objects of equipment such as automobiles, furniture, stoves, refrigerators, freezers, cans or containers; (iii) Stagnant water, or excavations; (iv) Any device, decoration, design, fence structure, clothesline or vegetation which is unsightly by reason of its condition or its inappropriate location; (v) Signs which are poorly maintained and/or relate to businesses or uses no longer conducted on the property; (vi) A service station that is not currently being oper- ated as such and the condition of which presents a health or safety hazard. Section 5: Section 21-~40 is hereby added to the Lynwood Municipal Code as follows: 21-40 Remedies Not Exclusive: The remedies provided in Articles II and III of this Chapter 21 shall be cumulative and not exclusive of any other remedies or actions available to the City pursuant to City ordinance or applicable law to prevent and abate nuisances as defined herein. Section 6: Severability. If any section, subsection, subdivision, sentence, clause, phrase or portion of this ordinance, or the application thereof to any person or place, is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance or its application to other persons or places. The City Council hereby declares that it would have adopted this ordinance, and each section, subsection, subdivision, sentence, clause, phrase or portion thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, subdivisions, sentences, clauses, phrases, or portions, or the application thereof to any person or place, be declared invalid or unconstitutional. Section 7: The City Clerk is hereby ordered and directed to certify to the passage of this ordinance and to cause the same to be published once in the Lynwood Press, a newspaper of general circulation, printed, published and circulated in the City of Lynwood. First read at a regular meeting of the City Council of said City on the 7th day of April, 1881, and finally adopted and ordered published at a regular meeting of said Council held on the 21st day of April, 1881. AYES: COUNCILMEN: Green, Morris, Rowe, Thompson, Byork NOES: COUNCILMEN: None ABSENT: COUNCILMEN: None ~~~~ ohn Byork ' May r of the City of Lynwood ATTEST: li~us?ene Coffey City Clerk, City of Lynwood •. STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) ss. COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) .~ I, the undersigned, City Clerk of the City of Lynwood, and ex officio clerk of the Council of said City, do hereby certify that the above is a true and correct copy of Ordinance No. 1125 adopted by the City Council of the City of Lynwood, and that the same was passed on the date and by the vote therein stated. Dated this 22nd day of April, 1881. ~-,-~= Laurene Coffey _ City Clerk,City of Lynwood