15.05.100 - Notice of involuntary abatement.

If the owner or owners of the property do not abate the nuisance within the time specified in such notice, or any extension thereof, the director of community development or his representative shall cause notice, in substantially the following form, to be served personally upon or mailed by certified mail to all persons who own or claim an interest in the real property, as disclosed by the last available equalized tax roll on file in the office of the assessor of the county of Los Angeles, or as known to said director of community development or his representative:

"NOTICE OF HEARING

ON

ABATEMENT OF NUISANCE

"Notice is hereby given that on _______, 19___, at the hour of _______, of said day or as soon thereafter as the matter can be heard, the City Council of the City of Commerce, California, will hold a public hearing in the Council Chambers of the Commerce City Hall, 5655 Jillson Street, Commerce, California, to ascertain whether or not certain premises in the City of Commerce described as Los Angeles County Assessor's Parcel No(s). ___________, and commonly known as _____ , Commerce, California, constitute a public nuisance and require abatement as prescribed in Chapter 15.05 of Title 15 of the Commerce Municipal Code.

"The conditions which shall be the subject of the public hearing are as follows: _____

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"If said premises are found by the council to constitute a public nuisance, and if the public nuisance has not been abated by the person or persons responsible therefor, such public nuisance may be ordered by the City Council to be abated by the person or persons who own or claim an interest in said real property, or may be ordered to be abated by the City and the cost thereof charged to said person or persons or levied as an assessment against said real property.

"All persons having any objection to or interest in said matters are hereby notified to attend the hearing at the time and place hereinabove specified, at which their testimony and evidence will be heard and received and given due consideration.

"Dated: ________, 19___.

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Director of Community Development"

Said notice shall be served or mailed as aforesaid and a copy thereof shall be posted conspicuously on the property not later than fifteen days before the day fixed for the hearing. Proof of service and posting shall be made by written declaration under penalty of perjury and filed with the clerk of the council before the time fixed for the hearing.

A copy of such notice shall also be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the city pursuant to the provisions of Section 6061 of the California Government Code, such publication to be done not later than ten days before the date of hearing.

(Ord. 229 (part), 1976).