Agenda - Council - 03/13/2012 - Special

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, failure to abate the nuisance or violation, or request a hearing within the applicable time periods will result in abatement procedures, and that the cost of abatement will be billed to the property owner. Upon expiration of the time required by the notice, the City Administrator or his/her designee shall notify the property owner of the date on which the nuisance or violation will be abated and proceed with the abatement, unless a request for a hearing has been timely filed. f. Certification of Unpaid Abatement Costs to County Auditor. On or before September 1 of each year, the Finance Officer shall list the total unpaid charge for each abatement against each separate lot or parcel to which they are attributable under this Ordinance • After notice and hearing as provided in Minnesota Statutes Section 429.061, 'the Council may then spread the charges against property benefited as a special assessment under Minnesota Statues, Section 429.101 and other pertinent statutes for certification to the County Auditor and collection along with current taxes the following year, or in annual installments, not exceeding ten, as the Council may determine in each case. 29. At the time of the abatement's inception, the term "Public Nuisance" was not specifically defined in the Ramsey City Code. However, Section 5.08.01 of the Ramsey City Code stated that the purpose of the section. was to "prevent the establishment of activities that maintain or permit a condition which unreasonably annoys, injures or endangers the health, morals, decency, safety, or public peace so that such activities do not affect the comfortable enjoyment of life or property." In effect at the same time, City Code Section 5.12 ( "Conditions of Premises ") described four conditions that were a cause of "blight" and stated that "No person shall maintain or permit to be maintained any of these causes of blight or blighting factors upon any property in the City owned, leased, rented, or occupied by such person. s The City provided a definition for "Public Nuisance" when it passed Ordinance # 7 -14, but this ordinance did not become effective until October 15, 2007, after Appellant received the September 13, 2007 notice from the City. 6 The conditions constituting "blight" or "blighting factors" included prohibitions on storage of jimk automobiles, junk, trash, rubbish, and refuse. It also prohibited vacant buildings or structures not suitable as a dwelling or permanently enclosed by windows or boards. The term "junk" was deemed to include machinery or motor vehicle parts, unused stoves or appliances, decayed or broken construction materials, and other metal or "cast-off" materials. .1a