[HISTORY: Adopted by the Council of the City of Pawtucket: Art. I,
approved 10-11-1991 as Ch. No. 2227; Art. II, 5-5-1995
as Ch. No. 2385. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Approved 10-11-1991 as Ch. No. 2227]
As used in this Article, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
The Pawtucket Fire Division, the Pawtucket Division of Zoning and
Code Enforcement, the Environmental Action Officer and any other person or
department which is authorized by state law or city ordinance to conduct investigations
of private property for the City of Pawtucket.
Any property within the City of Pawtucket which is cited for two
(2) or more separate and unrelated violations during two (2) or more separate
inspections within a twelve-month period by an investigative body of the City
of Pawtucket.
A.
Any landlord who owns property in the City of Pawtucket
and upon classification of said property as nuisance property by an investigative
body shall be required to pay a nuisance investigation fee of two hundred
dollars ($200.) to the office of Zoning and Code Enforcement for each subsequent
investigation by an investigative body at which a law or code is cited for
violation for a period of twelve (12) months from the date of classification
as nuisance property.
B.
Failure to pay said fee(s) within thirty (30) days of
the citation will result in a lien being placed on the property.
[Approved 5-5-1995 as Ch. No. 2385]
The Director of Public Safety shall have the authority to declare any
building in the City of Pawtucket as a public nuisance.
For the purpose of this ordinance the term "public nuisance" is defined
to mean any condition or use of premises or of building exteriors which is
detrimental to the property of others or which causes or tends to cause substantial
diminution in value of other property in the neighborhood in which such premises
are located, or a building that is a menace to the public health, welfare
or safety or that is structurally unsafe, unsanitary or not provided with
adequate safe egress, or that constitutes a fire hazard, or is otherwise dangerous
to human life, or is otherwise no longer fit and habitable, or that in relation
to existing use constitutes a hazard to the public health, welfare or safety
by reason of inadequate maintenance, dilapidation, obsolescence or abandonment.
This includes, but is not limited to, the keeping or the depositing on or
the scattering over the premises of any of the following:
A.
Lumber, junk, trash or debris.
B.
Abandoned, discarded or unused objects or equipment such
as automobiles, furniture, stoves, refrigerators, freezers, cans or containers.
C.
Any compost pile which is of such a nature so as to spread
or harbor disease, emit unpleasant odors or harmful gas or attract rodents,
vermin or other disease-carrying pests, animals or insects, provided that
the presence of earthworms in a compost pile shall not constitute a nuisance.
D.
The using of any part of the property or any public property
adjacent thereto for the manufacture, sale, use or delivery of a controlled
substance or from possessing on the property or any public property adjacent
thereto with the intent to manufacture, sell, use or deliver a controlled
substance classified in Schedule I or Schedule II of the Rhode Island General
Laws, Chapter 28 of Title 21.
E.
The using of any part of the property or any public property
adjacent thereto, to receive or offer or agree to receive any person into
any place, structure, house, building or room for the purpose of pandering
or committing prostitution or for any other lewd or indecent act.
