HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance No. 379ORDINANCE NO. 379'
AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO UNSAFE BUILDINGS,
MAKING UNSAFE BUILDINGS A NUISANCE, PROVID-
ING FOR TFE REMOVAL AND DEMOLITION OF SUCH
BUILDINGS AND THE ARATEP.?ENT OF NUISANCES
AND PROVID_NG PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS OF
THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF TINS ORDINANCE.
The City Council of the City of Azusa does ordain as
follows: .
SECTION I. Whenever any building or part of any buildin;s,
on account of any cause or defect, is dangerous or when it is unsafe
for the purpose for which it is used, or when it is a fire hazard
or a hazard and menace to surrounding buildings, or in danger of
being set on fire from any defect in. its construction, the City
Council shall notify the owner or his agents in writing, specifying
wherein such danger consists or wherein such building is unsafe or
defective, or wherein it constitutes a fire hazard or is a hazard
and menace to surrounding buildings; and if such owner or anent
neglects to proceed at once to put such buildings or dangerous
part thereof in a safe condition, remove, raze, demolish or destroy
the said building or dangerous part thereof, the said owner or
agent shall be subject to a fine of not less than x,1.00 nor more
than X100.00 for each and every day such violation shall continue,
after 15 days from the service of such notice.
SECTION II. At any time after 15 days have expired
after the service of such notice, the Council of the City of Azusa
may order the City Attorney to bring an abatement proceeding in
the Superior Court of the State of California for Los Angeles
County to abate such nuisance if the owner or agent is not proceed-
ing with the orders.of the City Council.
SECTION III. Whenever any building or part of any
building, on account of any cause or defect, is dangerous, or when
it is unsafe for the purpose for which it is used, or when it is
a fire hazard or a hazard and menace to surrounding buildings, or
in danger of being set on fire from any defect in its construction,
the same is a nuisance and is hereby declared to be a nuisance.
SECTION IV. Any person, firm, company or corporation,
owner, or agent, who, for a period of 15 days after receiving the
written notice hereinabove provided for, shall fail to take steps
to.put such building or dangerous part thereof in a safe condition,
remove, raze, demolish or destroy said building or dangerous
part thereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction
shall be punished as hereinbefore provided.
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SECTION V: The ":a;yor shall sign this ordinance and the City
Clerk shall attest same and certify to the passage, adoption and
publication thereof and shall cause the same to be published once,
-ithin fifteen days after its passage, in the Azusa Herald and
Pomotropic, a weekly newspaper of general circulation printed,
published and circulated in the City of Azus-, which said news-
paper is hereby designated for that purpose, and thenceforth end
thereafter this ordinance shall be in full force endeffect.
AT TEE STT : 7
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�.. A. h S, Cit Clerk of the
City of Azusa.
Passed, approved a.n' a, o >ted
this�_day ofm= °1944
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STATE. OF CALIFORNIA)
) SS.
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES)'
I, M. A. Hynes, City Clerk of the City of
Azusa, Los Angeles County, California, do hereby
certify that the foregoing Ordinance was duly intro-
duced, placed upon its first reading and fully read
at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City
of Azusa held on October 6, 1944, in the regular
Council Chambers of said City Council in said City;
that thereafter said ordinance was duly and regularly
passed and adopted. by said Council, signed and approv-
ed by the Mayor and attested by the City Clerk of
said City at a_ rerula r
meeting of said Council so held in the regular Council
Chambers of said City Council on October 16
1944, and that the same was passed and adopted by tie
following vote of the Council:
AYES: Councilmen: Owens, Jumper, Memmesheimer,
Morden, Lamm.
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
I DO P'IJRTHER CERTIFY that I caused said
ordinance to be published prior to the expiration of
fifteen days from the passage thereof in the Azusa
Herald and Pomotr.00ic on October 19
1944, a newspaper of genera circu at on', printed,
published, and circulated in said City of Azusa, and
that the same was published in accordance with law.
A. HYI
City Clerk of - e City of Azusa