HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution 98-066 04/20/1998 RESOLUTION NO. ss-ss N.C.S.
of the City of Petaluma, California
1 RESOLUTION ORDERING ABATEMENT OF NUISANCES
2 CONSISTING OF WEEDS GROWING UPON PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PROPERTY
3 IN THE CITY OF PETALUMA AND ORDERING THE FIRE CHIEF TO REMOVE
4 SAID WEEDS, BY CONTRACT OR BY HIS OWN FORCES
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6 WHEREAS, on the 6th day of April 1998, the Council of the City of Petaluma adopted
7 Resolution No. 98-~ N.C.S., declaring weeds growing upon public and private property
8 referred to and described in said Resolution, constituted and were a public nuisance and fixed the
9 20th day of April 1997, at the hour of 7:00 p.m., or as soon thereafter as can be heard, in the
10 Council Chambers of the City Hall, 11 English Street, Petaluma, California, as the time and place
11 of hearing protests and objections to said abatement proceedings; and,
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13 WHEREAS, the City Council has held its hearing and considered all objections or protests to the
14 proposed removal of weeds and has followed or overruled any or all objections, as hereinafter set
15 forth, and the City Council .has now acquired jurisdiction to proceed and perform the work of
16 removal of said weeds;
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18 NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council does hereby order the Fire
19 Department of the City, through a contractor employed by this Council or its own forces, to abate
20 said nuisances by removing said weeds by means of mowing, disking or blading using whichever
21 means it deems to be the most appropriate after considering the .location and the terrain of said
22 parcels of public and private property referred to and described in said Resolution No. 98-Q
23 N.C.S. Said mowing, disking and blading shall be accomplished as many times as the Fire
24 Department may deem necessary to provide the best possible control of weeds.
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26 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that said Fire Department shall keep an account of the cost of
27 this abatement of said nuisances on public and private property where the work is done, and
28 thereafter submit to this Council for confirmation, an itemized written report showing such cost as
29 required by Section 39547 of the Government Code, and thereafter such proceedings shall be had
30 for special assessments against the respective parcels of land to pay for the cost of said work, in
31 the manner provided by Chapter 13, Part 2, Division 3, of Title 4 of the Government Code.
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Under the power and authority rnnferred upon this Council by the Charter of said City.
REFERENCE: I hereby certify the foregoing Resolution was introduced and adopted by the Ap roved as to
Council of the City of Petaluma at a (Regular) (]SHjbX3$SIL3~CSdi) meeting
on the ...2.QSIt.._._..._.. day oF .._..........ApI'11...._ 19...9$., by khe
following vote:
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AYES: Keller, Torliatt, Hamilton, Stompe, Vice Mayor Maguire
NOE9: None _~-~i
ABSENT: Read, Ma. illtg
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