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RESOLUTION NO. 2302 A RESOLUTION ORD,'RING THE STREET SUPERINTENDENT TO ABATE THE PUBLIC NUISANCE HERETOFORE DECLARED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA, TO EXIST IN THE CITY OF SANTA ANA, T0-WIT: WEEDS WHICH BEAR SEEDS OF A WINGY OR DOWNY NATURE AND ATTAIN SUCH A LARGE GROWTH AS TO BECOME A FIRE MENACE WHEN DRY AND WHICH ARE NOXIOUS AND DANGER- OUS, GROWING UPON CERTAIN STRt~TS, SIDEWALKS AND PRIVATE PROPERTY IN THE CITY OF SANTA ANA, BY HAVING THE WEEDS REFERRED TO REMOVED. The City Council of the City of Santa Ana resolves as follows: Section 1. Pursuant to provisions of an Act of the Legislature of the State of California, entitled "An Act Authorizing Municipalities to Declare Noxious or Dangerous Weeds GrOwing upon the Streets or Sidewalks or Private Property with- in Municipalities to be a Public Nuisance, Creating a Lien upon the Property fronting upon such streets or sidewalks or upon which such Nuisance Exists for the cost of abating the same", approved May 26, 1915, and amendments thereto, the City Council of the City of Santa Aha having acquired jurisdiction so to do, here- by orders the Street Superintendent of said City to abate the public nuisance heretofore declared to exist in said City of Santa Ana, to-wit: Weeds which bear seeds of a wingy or downy nature and attain such a large growth as to become a fire menace when dry and which are noxious and dangerous, growing upon the streets or sidewalks in front of or upon private property described as follows, to-wit: (SEX WEre FI E) Section 2. Any property owner shall have the right to have any of said weeds removed at his own expense, providing the same is done prior to the arrival of the Street Superintendent or his representatives to do the same. Section 3. The Street Superintendent shall keep an acc6unt of the cost of abating said nuisance in front of or on each separate lot or parcel of land where the work is done by him or his deputies, and shall render an itemized report, in writing to the City Council of the City of Santa Ana showing the cost of removing such weeds on each separate lot, or in front thereof, or both, pro- vided, that before said report is submitted to said City Council, a copy of the same shall be posted for at least three days prior thereto, au or near the Chamber Door of said City Council, together with a notice of the time when said report shall be submitted to the City Council for confirmation. At the time fixed for receiving and considering said report, the City Council shall hear the same, together with any objections which may be raised by any of the property ovmers liable to be assessed for the work of abating said nuisance and thereupon make such modifications in the report as they deem necessary, after which said report shall be confirmed. The amounts of the cost for abating such nuisance in front of or the various parcels of land mentioned in said report shall constitute special assessments against the respective parcels of land, and, as this made and confirmed shall constitute a lien on said property for the amount of such assessments, respectively, and thereafter said amounts shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as ordinary municipal taxes are collected and shall be subject to the same penalties and the same procedure under foreclosure and sale in case of delinquency as provided for ordinary municipal taxes. I hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was adopted by the City Council of the City of Santa Ana, at an adjourned regular meeting thereof held on the BVth day of April, 1931, by the following vote, to-wit: