Title 7 - Health and Sanitation

7.28.020 Enforcement.

The enforcing officer of the City shall have the power to declare any condition, situation or existing set of facts to constitute an immediate hazard requiring immediate action to protect the public whenever, in his opinion, the public health, safety, welfare or morals are presently jeopardized. The enforcing officer may erect barricades around such immediate hazards, take other actions to eliminate such immediate hazard, or cause the property on which said immediate hazard is located to be vacated, taken down, repaired, shored, or otherwise made safe without delay and such action may be taken without prior notice to or hearings of the owners, agents, lienholders, and occupants. The cost of such action shall be assessed against the premises on which the immediate hazard is located.

(History: Ord. IHR-1424 §2, 87; IHR-377 §2, 66)

Effective on: 1/1/1901