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RESOLUTION NO. 8231
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;
NOW,
, BE IT RESOLVED:
SECTION 1. The City Council hereby determines and
declares that the weeds and other conditions described above which
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exist upon 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 sidewalks 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
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will be assessed upon the lands from which, and /or in the front
and rear of which, such nuisances shall have been destroyed or
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SECTION 3. The City Council does hereby set the 8t3T
day of April, 1974, 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
hearing to consider protests, in the following manner:
By mailing, at least ten (10) days prior to the 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
assessment for the abatement work, directed to the address of said
owners as shown on the latest County tax roll.
ATTEST:
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ADOPTED this 8th day of April , 1974.
CE IN AS THE RI NAL
CITY CLERK OF THE CITY OF NE T BEACH
DATE APRL 15 1974._�__�
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