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ORDINANCE NS-1476
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA AMENDING
SANTA ANA MUNICIPAL CODE SECTIONS 16-49 AND 16-50
TO CHANGE THE REQUIR~iENTS FOR THE NOTICES TO BE
POSTED ON PROPERTY WITH ACCUMULATIONS OF NOXIOUS
GROWTH, RUBBISH AND GARBAGE.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA DOES
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1: That Section 16-49 of the Santa Ana
Municipal Code, is hereby amended to read as follows:
Sec. 16-49
Order and notice requiring removal
of noxious growths, rubbish, gar-
bage - Time limit; posting and
mailing of notice.
(a) If and when it shall appear that noxious growths,
rubbish or garbage have been placed upon or in front of
private property in violation of any of the provisions of
this article or of any other provisions of this Code, the
designated officer may, by appropriate written order, direct
the removal thereof and shall cause notices to be posted
upon or in front of such property to the effect that such
weeds, vines, shrubs, brush, rubbish or garbage must be
removed within seven (7) days from and after the date of
such posting. Such notices shall be conspicuously posted on
or in front of the property on or in front of which the
conditions exists, as follows:
(1) One (1) notice shall be posted on or in front of
each separately owned parcel;
(2) Not more than two (2) notices shall be posted to
any parcel of fifty (50) to one hundred (100) feet
frontage;
(3) Notices shall be placed at intervals of not more
than one hundred feet (100'), if the frontage of a
parcel is greater than one hundred feet (100'),
with one notice for each one hundred feet (100')
of frontage.
(b) In addition to posting such notices, the desig-
nated officer shall send a similar notice to the owner of
the subject property as shown upon any city record or upon
the last equalized tax roll, by depositing such notice in
the United States mail; but the failure of the owner to
receive such notice shall not affect the power of the city
or its officers or employees to proceed as provided in this
article. Such notice shall be mailed not less than twenty
(20) days prior to the date set for hearing upon objections.
SECTION 2: That Section 16-50 of the Santa Ana
Municipal Code, is hereby amended to read as follows:
Sec. 16-50. FORM OF NOTICE.
The headings of the notices required by
Section 16-49 shall be in letters approximately one
inch (1") in height. Said notices shall be in sub-
stantially the following form:
ORDINANCE NO. NS-1476
PAGE TWO
"NOTICE TO CLEAN PREMISES
"NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to the owner, manager,
occupant or persons having charge or control of the
property located at (describe property, e.g. address,
assessor's parcel number, physical description) that
the condition(s) of(describe violation(s))
exists upon the property which is/are in violation of
Article III, Chapter 16 of the Santa Ana Municipal
Code, which provides for the elimination of rubbish,
garbage, noxious or dangerous growths, growing upon or
accumulated upon or in front of property, obstructing
the use of sidewalks, parkways or streets or dangerous
or injurious to neighboring property or the health and
welfare of residents in the vicinity.
"The said condition(s) must be abated on or before
, 19__. If not abated on or before said
date, the City of Santa Ana may abate the condtion or
cause it to be abated and the costs thereof will be
assessed against the land and become a lien thereon.
"Any person objecting to the abatement work
specified in this notice may appeal by filing a written
statement of such objection, specifying the address or
description of the property concerned, the reasons for
objection, and the name, address, phone number (if any)
and status (owner, manager, tenant, lessee, or other)
of the person making the objection. Ail such state-
ments must be filed with the Clerk of the Council, City
Hall, 20 Civic Center Plaza, Santa Ana, California, not
later than the date for abatement set forth hereinabove.
SECTION 3: If any section, subsection, sentence,
clause, phrase or portion of this ordinance is for any
reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the deci-
sion of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision
shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of
this ordinance. The City Council of the City of Santa Ana
hereby declares that it would have adopted this ordinance
and each section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or
portion thereof irrespective of the fact that any one or
more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses, phrases or
portions be declare invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION 4: Neither the adoption of this ordin-
ance nor the repeal hereby of any ordinance shall in any
manner affect the prosecution for violation of which viola-
tions were committed prior to the effective date hereof, nor
be construed as affecting any of the provisions of such
ordinance relating to the collection of any such license or
penalty or the penal provisions applicable to any violation
thereof, nor to affect the validity of any bond or cash
ORDINANCE NO. NS- 1476
PAGE THREE
deposit in lieu thereof, required to be posted, filed or
deposited pursuant to any ordiance and all rights and obli-
gations thereunder appertaining shall continue in full force
and effect.
ADOPTED, this 12th day of March ,
1979, by the following vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEN:
NOES: COUNCILMEN:
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN:
ATTEST:
CLERK OF THE cOU~L~/
BRANDT, BRICKEN, EVANS, GARTHE,
ORTIZ, WARD, YAMAMOTO
NONE
MAYOR
PROVED TO
KEITH L. GOW,
CITY ATTORNEY