1191 Public Nuisiances(Published in the Salina Evening Journal July. 1903.)
ORDINANCE N0.-&�`__
An ordinance defining'certain public nuisances, providing for the RkkRx
abatement of the same, and taxing the costs thereof to the prop=
erty upon which such nuisances are situate.
Be it ordained bit the Mayor and Councilmen of the City of Salina: --
Section 1. That rank grass, weeds and other vegetation growing,
standing or being upon any lot, parking or parcel of ground within the
corporate limits of the city of Salina, Kansas, and any pond or ponds of
water standing upon any lot or parcel of ground within the corporate
limits of said city, are hereby declared to be public nuisances; and any
person who shall knowingly permit such nuisances as are herein defined
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to be or remain upon or in front of any lot or parcel of ground owned by
him, or for which he is agent if such owner be a non-resident, shall be
deemed guilty of a: misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined
in any stun not exceding ten dollars.; and such nuisances may be removed
and abated asiherein provided.
Sec. 2. Whenever the Committee on Public Health of the city
council of such cite shall file with the citta
„ clerk its statement in
writing that such nuisance, rank vegetation or pond of water- describing
the same and where located, is a nuisance and dangerous to the health of
the inhabitants of the city, or of any neighborhood, family or resident of
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the city, an& such statement shall be approved by the city council, the
clerk shall forthwith issue notice requiring the owner or agent of the
owner of the premises upon ---or- in. front of which such nuisance is situate
to remove analabate from.said premises the thing or things therein do -
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scribed as a nuisance, within a time to be specified in the notice; said
notice 'shall be served by the cite marshal by delivering a copy thereof to
the owner or agent of such property, or, if a non-resident, then by mail-
ing a notice to his last known address; and if such owner�or agent shall
fail or neglect to -comply with the requirments of such notice for a period
of ten days, then the city shall have the thing or things described in
said notice as a nuisance removd and abated from said lot or,parcel of
ground, and the coat of such removal and,abatement shall be aasedsed and
charged agai3st the lot o•r parcel of ground on which said n�sa,nce was
located; and the city clerk shall, at the time of certifying other cit;;
tuxes to the county clerk, certify the aforesaid costs, and the county
clerk shall extend the same on the tax --roll of the county against said
lot or parcel of ground, and it shall be collected by the county treas-
urer and -paid to the city as other treses are collected and paid.
Sec. 3. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force fror�
and'after its publication once in the Salina Evening Journal.
Passed by the council: July 20, 1903.
Approved: July 20, 1903.
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