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RESOLUTION NO. 7 5 3 2
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
NEWPORT BEACH DECLARING THAT WEEDS AND OTHER
PUBLIC NUISANCES EXIST UPON STREETS, ALLEYS,
SIDEWALKS, PARKWAYS, AND PRIVATE PROPERTY WITHIN
THE CITY, DECLARING THAT SAID WEEDS AND PUBLIC
NUISANCES MUST BE ABATED, SETTING THE TIME AND
PLACE FOR A PUBLIC HEARING AT WHICH THE CITY
COUNCIL WILL CONSIDER PROTESTS FROM PERSONS
OBJECTING TO THE PROPOSED DESTRUCTION OR REMOVAL
OF SUCH PUBLIC NUISANCES BY THE CITY, AND
DIRECTING THE FIRE CHIEF TO GIVE NOTICE OF THE
PASSAGE OF THIS RESOLUTION AND OF THE PUBLIC
HEARING
WHEREAS, it has come to the attention of the City Council
that the following conditions exist upon streets, alleys, sidewalks,
parkways and private property within the City as shown, described
and delineated on the several maps of the properties in the City
which are recorded in the office of the County Recorder of the
County of Orange:
(a) Weeds are growing which when mature bear wingy or
downy seeds, which will attain such a large growth as to become a
fire menace when dry, or which are otherwise noxious or dangerous;
(b) Dry grass, stubble, brush, garden refuse, litter, or
other flammable material which constitutes a fire hazard or which,
when dry, will in reasonable probability constitute a fire hazard;
(c) Poison oak and poison ivy which constitute a menace to
the public health;
(d) Rubbish, refuse and dirt upon parkways and sidewalks,
and rubbish and refuse upon private property; and
WHEREAS, in the judgment of the City Council said conditions
constitute a public nuisance and should be abated as such pursuant
to the provisions of Chapter 10.48 of the Newport Beach Municipal
Code;
1• NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED:
SECTION 1. The City Council hereby determines and declares
that the weeds and other conditions described above which exist upon
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the streets, alleys, sidewalks, parkways and private property within
the City are a public nuisance.
SECTION 2. Said public nuisances must be abated by the
destruction or removal thereof, and all owners of property on which
• such public nuisances exist or which abuts public streets or side-
walks on which such public nuisances exist shall without delay
destroy or remove all such public nuisances or such work will be
done by the City, in which case the cost of such work will be
assessed upon the lands from which, and /or in the front and rear of
which, such nuisances shall have been destroyed or removed.
SECTION 3. The City Council does hereby set the 12th
day of October , 19 71 , at 7 :30 p.m. as the time, and the
Council Chambers in the City Hall of the City of Newport Beach as the
place, for hearing objections and protests to the proposed abatement
of such nuisances.
SECTION 4. The Fire Chief is hereby directed to give
notice of the passage of this resolution, of the Council's direction
that such public nuisances must be abated by the destruction or
removal thereof, and of the time and place set for the public he
to consider protests, in the following manner:
By mailing, at least ten (10) days prior to
time fixed by the City Council for hearing objections, a postcard
giving notice of the time, place and purpose of the hearing to
consider protests, to all owners of real property subject to asseE
ment for the abatement work, directed to the address of said ownex
as shown on the latest County tax roll.
ADOPTED this 20th day of September 1971
ATTEST:
City Clerk
CE IPIED AS THE ORIGINAL
CITY CIEBK OF THE CITY OF NEW BRA6i -
SEP _2_3.1971
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Mayor
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