a. 
The City Council finds and declares that it is in the public interest to establish a non-inclusive list of those activities, uses of property, and conditions of property which constitute public nuisances; to establish penalties for maintenance of public nuisances; and to establish a summary abatement procedure for abating certain public nuisances, the cost of which abatement procedure may be made both a special assessment against the parcel of real property upon which the nuisance was maintained and a personal obligation of the property owner or other person maintaining the nuisance.
b. 
The procedure set forth in this chapter for the abatement of a nuisance and the making of the cost of abatement of a nuisance which exists upon a parcel of land a assessment against that parcel is adopted pursuant to Government Code Section 38771 et seq. The procedure set forth in this chapter for abatement applies to those activities, uses of property, and conditions of property declared to be public nuisances in Section 1-6.301 of this chapter and to any other activity, use of property, or condition of property declared to be a nuisance by another section of this code or by another ordinance of the City of Walnut Creek which activity, use of property, or use of property is made subject to abatement pursuant to this chapter.
c. 
The procedures set forth in this chapter for the abatement of a nuisance are non-exclusive. The City may abate any nuisance according to the procedures set forth in this chapter or may, in the alternative, abate a nuisance by any other lawful manner or procedure.
(§ 1, Ord. 1690, eff. 8/19/1988)
a. 
Every owner of real property within the City is required to maintain such property in a manner so as not to violate the provisions of this code and such owner remains liable for violations thereof regardless of any contract or agreement with any third party regarding such property.
b. 
Every occupant, lessee, or holder of any interest in property, other than as owner thereof, is required to maintain such property in the same manner as is required of the owner thereof, and the duty imposed by this section on the owner thereof shall in no instance relieve those persons herein referred to from the similar duty.
(§ 1, Ord. 1690, eff. 8/19/1988)
Every person within the City is required to conduct himself and to insure that all animals, equipment, machinery, instruments, and tools under his control or for which he is responsible are used, operated, maintained, or handled in such a manner as not to violate the provisions of this code.
(§ 1, Ord. 1690, eff. 8/19/1988)
This chapter shall not be construed to replace or supersede any other section of the Municipal Code, except where expressly provided therein, but shall supplement such provisions. In the event that there is an express conflict between the provisions of this chapter and another provision of the Municipal Code, the more stringent provision shall prevail so as to carry out the intent of the City Council.
(§ 2, Ord. 2109, eff. 6/15/2012)