Ordinance 1992-10ORDINANCE NO. 92'10
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF GILROY AMENDING
SECTIONS 12.48 AND 12.49 OF THE GILROY CITY
CODE REGARDING WEED ABATEMENT PROCEDURES
The City Council of the City of Gilroy does hereby ordain
as follows:
SECTION I
Section 12.48 of the Gilroy City Code is hereby amended
to read as follows:
Sec. 12.48.
Resolution declaring nuisance;
publication of notice of reso-
lution.
Whenever any weeds are growing upon any
private property or properties or in any
street or alley within the city or whenever
refuse shall accumulate upon any part of such
areas the city council shall pass a resolution
declaring the same to be a public nuisance and
order the chief of the fire department to give
notice of the passage of such resolution by
posting and publication in the same manner and
for the time as set forth in section 12.53 and
stating therein that, unless such nuisance be
abated without delay by the destruction or
removal of such weeds and refuse, the work of
abating such nuisance will be done by the city
authorities and the expense thereof assessed
upon the lots and lands from which or in the
front and rear of which such weeds and refuse
shall have been destroyed or removed. The
city clerk shall thereupon fix the time and
place for hearing any objections to the pro-
posed destruction or removal of such weeds and
refuse.
SECTION II
Section 12.49 of the Gilroy City Code is hereby amended
to read as follows:
Sec. 12.49.
Form of notice to destroy or
remove weeds or refuse.
The notice shall be substantially in the
following form:
"NOTICE TO DESTROY OR REMOVE
WEEDS AND REFUSE
"NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on
pursuant to Section 12.48 of
the Gilroy City Code, +he city Council of said
City passed a resolu'aiun declaring that all
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weeds and/or refuse, as the same are defined
in Section 12.45 of the Gilroy City Code,
growing or accumulating upon any private
property or in any public street or alley,
constitute or constitutes a public nuisance,
and that such nuisance must be abated by the
destruction or removal thereof.
"NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that property
owners shall, without delay, remove or cause
to be removed all such weeds and refuse from
their property, and from the abutting half of
the street in front and alleys, if any, behind
such property, and between the lot lines
thereof as extended, or such weeds will be
destroyed and removed and such refuse will be
removed and such nuisance or nuisances created
thereby abated by the City authorities, in
which case the costs of such destruction
and/or removal will be assessed upon the lots
and lands from which, or from the front or
rear of which such weeds and accumulation of
refuse, have been destroyed or removed; and
such costs will constitute a lien upon such
lots or lands until paid and will be collected
upon the next tax roll upon which general
municipal taxes are collected. All property
owners having any objections to the proposed
destruction or removal of such weeds and/or
refuse are hereby notified to attend a meeting
of the Council of said City of Gilroy to be
held in the Council Chambers in the City Hall,
7351 Rosanna Street, City of Gilroy, on
, at o'clock
p.m., when and where their objections will be
heard and given due consideration.
"DATED: This day of
19 .
"Chief of Fire Department
"city of Gilroy"
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 20th day of
by the following vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
COUNCILMEMBERS:
COUNCILMEMBERS:
COUNCILMEMBERS:
July
, 199 2
GILROY, HALE, KLOECKER, NELSON,
ROWLISON, VALDEZ and GAGE.
None
None
/City Clerk
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I, SUSANNE E. STEINMETZ, City Clerk of the City of Gilroy, do
hereby certify that the attached Ordinance No. 92-10 is an original
ordinance, duly adopted by the Council of the City of Gilroy at a regular
meeting of said Council held on the 20th day of July , 19 92 ,
at which meeting a quorum was present.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
Official Seal of the City of Gilroy this
19 92.
City Clerk of the City of Gilroy ~
(Seal)
21st day of June