HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD NO 2102 ORDINANCE NO. 2102 NEW SERIES
AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF ~THE CITY OF
BAKERSFIELD AMENDING SECTIONS 8.80.010 AND
8.80.090 OF CHAPTER 8.80 OF TITLE 8 OF THE
MUNICIPAL CODE, PROVIDING FOR T}HZ REMOVAL
OF CERTAIN WEEDS AS A PUBLIC NUISANCE AND
CREATING A LIEN FOR COST OF ABATING SUCH
NUISANCE.
BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Bakersfield
as follows:
SECTION 1.
That Section 8.80.010 of Chapter 8.80 of Title 8 of the
Bakersfield Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
8.80.010 Weeds Constitutin8 a Public Nuisance. Ail weeds which
are described in this section growing upon any private property or
in any public street, sidewalk or alley within the City of Bakersfield,
are hereby declared to be a public nuisance, which nuisance shall
be abated as herein provided.
The term "weeds" shall include:
(a) Weeds which bear seeds of a downy or wingy nature.
(b) Sagebrush, chaparral, and any other brush or weeds
which attain such large growth as to become, when dry, a fire
menace to adjacent improved property.
(c) Weeds which are otherwise noxious or dangerous.
(d) Poison oak and poison ivy, when the conditions of
growth are such as to .constitute a menace to the public health.
(e) Dry grass, stubble, brush, litter, or other flammable
material which endangers the public safety by creating a fire
hazard.
SECTION 2.
That Section 8.80.090 of Chapter 8.80 of Title 8 of the
Bakersfield Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
8.80.090 Work Done By Street Superintendent--Report and
Assessment List. When the work is done or caused to be done by
the Street Superintendent, he shall keep an account of the cost
of abating such nuisances, including an administrative charge to be
determined and apportioned by him, upon each separate lot or parcel
of land and in the front and alley (if any) in rear thereof between
the side lines of such lot as extended. The Street Superintendent
shall embody said account in a Report and Assessment List to the
City Council, which he shall file with the City Clerk. Said Report
and Assessment List shall refer to each separate lot or parcel of
land by a description sufficient to identify it, and state sepa-
rately the cost of destroying or removing said weeds on and in the
front, side and/or rear as aforesaid of each parcel of land, includ-
ing said apportioned administrative charge.
SECTION 3.
This ordinance shall become effective thirty days from
and after the date of its passage.
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I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance was passed
and adopted by the Council of the City of Bakersfield at a regular
meeting thereof held on the 18th day of June, 1973, by the following
vote:
Ayes: Councilmen Strong, Whittemore, Bleecker, Heisey,
Medders, Rogers
Noes: None
Absent: Councilman Thomas
Abstaining: None
CITY 'CLERK and Ex'Offidio Clerk of the
Council of the City of Bakersfield
APPROVED this~-~y ~f June 1973
MAY~t~Se City of Bakersfield
APPROVED:
CITY ATTORNEY
Affi av ! of os mg r man es
STATE OF CALIFORNIA, ~ ss.
County of Kern }
MARIAN S. IRVIN, being duly sworn, deposes and sayS:
That she is the duly appointed, acting and qualified City Clerk of the City of Bakersfield; and
that on ........................ _.J..u...n..e_...1...9. ............................................ 19..7.J.3... she posted on the Bulletin Board
at the City Hall, a full, true and correct copy of an ordinance passed by the Council of said City
at a meeting thereof duly held on ............. .J_u...n...e....!..8. ................................... 19..7.~.., which ordinance
was numbered ...... . .2. ~ .1..0. ..2. ....................... New Series, and entitled:
AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
BAKERSFIELD AMENDING SECTIONS 8.80. 010 AND
8.80.090 OF CHAPTER 8.80 OF TITLE 8 OF THE
MUNICIPAL CODE, PROVIDING FOR THE REMOVAL
OF CERTAIN WEEDS AS A PUBLIC NUISANCE AND
CREATING A LIEN FOR COST OF ABATING SUCH
NUISANCE.
City Clerk
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
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'~'~,,~ ~.~¢'/,~ PRINCIPAL OFFICE ,N
[KERN COUNTY
]J MY COMM SSION EXPIRES JUNE 9, 1974