8.44.010 - Purpose and intent.

It is the purpose and intent of this chapter to impose a legal duty upon the owners of vacant buildings and properties to secure them and to prevent the buildings from deteriorating into havens for crime and vagrancy to the degree that a nuisance is created, ruining the safe, peaceful and quiet enjoyment of neighboring properties. This chapter creates a system to notify property owners of the problems reasonably attributable to their vacant property and a process to secure the vacant property.

(Ord. No. 2020-06, § VI, 6-3-2020)