§ 12-53. Abatement procedure.

(a)

If any owner, lessee, occupant or other person shall violate the provisions of section 12-52, the city shall have authority to and may go upon such property and remove such abandoned junk described in such section and shall charge and collect from the owner of such abandoned junk and material the cost of removing such junk and material pursuant to the procedure in section 12-1 et seq.

(b)

Any junked motor vehicles after notice as provided in section 12-1(b) either placed on the vehicle itself or given to the owner, if known, which remain on the public ways or private property shall be considered as public property and disposed of by the city as the city council may designate.

(c)

In the exercise of the authority herein granted, the removal of such abandoned junk by the city and the collection of the cost of removal from the owner of the material, shall not exceed two hundred dollars ($200.00). The city council, among other things, may require, but not by way of limitation, that any vacant lot or unused portion of any occupied lot used for the storage of junk shall be surrounded or enclosed by a board fence or other enclosure.

(Code 1955, § 14-7.1)