No person shall permit or suffer to be in or accumulate in or upon any yard, lot, place or premises or in any building or shed owned or occupied by him or them or for which he or they may be agents within the limits of the city any refuse, trash, rubbish, vegetable decay or decaying substance, garbage or filth of any kind, nor suffer such yard, lot, place, building or premises to be or to remain in such condition as is unsightly or to cause or create a nuisance or offensive smell or to pollute or render unhealthful the atmosphere or the premises or thereby to be, become, cause or create a public nuisance.
(Ord. 36 § 1, 1967)
Whenever a situation or condition in or on a premises advances to a state deemed unhealthful or unsanitary by a city official, or determined to be in violation of this article, the city clerk shall notify such occupant or owner to remove the same within 10 days following the date of notice. In default of this being done, the city may remove the same and the cost thereof shall be assessed against the premises or property so cleaned or cleared, such assessment to be certified by the city clerk to the county assessor and tax collector, who shall place the same upon the tax roll for collection as a special tax in addition to the taxes for general revenue purposes, and he shall collect the same in the manner and subject to the same penalties as other city taxes.
(Ord. 36 § 2, 1967)
Any person convicted of a violation of this article shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine in a sum not to exceed $100.00 or confined in the city or county jail for not more than 30 days or punished by both such fine and imprisonment.
(Ord. 36 § 3, 1967)