ORD 235 ORDINANCE NO. 235
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF RANCHO PALOS VERDES
AMENDING TITLE 8 OF THE RANCHO PALOS VERDES MUNICIPAL
CODE BY REPEALING CERTAIN SECTIONS OF CHAPTER 8. 12 AND
ADDING THERETO CHAPTER 8.24 RELATING TO PROPERTY
MAINTENANCE AND AMENDING TITLE 12 THEREOF BY REPEALING
SECTION 12 . 08. 100 OF CHAPTER 12 . 08
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO PALOS VERDES
does hereby ordain as follows:
Section 1. Chapter 8. 12 of Title 8 of the Code of the
City of Rancho Palos Verdes is hereby amended by redesignating
its title as "Hazards" and by repealing the following sections:
8. 12 . 020, 8. 12. 030, 8. 12 . 040, 8. 12. 050, 8. 12. 060, 8 . 12. 070,
8 . 12 . 080, 8. 12 . 090, 8. 12 . 100, 8. 12 . 110 and 8. 12 . 120.
Section 2 . Title 8 of the Code of the City of Rancho
Palos Verdes is hereby amended by adding thereto Chapter 8.24
which shall read as follows:
"CHAPTER 8.24
PROPERTY MAINTENANCE
8.24. 010 Short Title. This chapter shall be known as
the "City of Rancho Palos Verdes Property Maintenance Ordinance, "
and is adopted pursuant to the authority contained in
Section 38773 . 5 of the California Government Code.
8. 24.20 Findings. The City Council finds and
determines as follows:
A. The City has a history of and a reputation for
well-kept properties, and the property values and the general
welfare of the community are dependent, in part, upon the
appearance and maintenance of private properties.
B. There exists a need for further emphasis on
property maintenance and sanitation in that certain conditions,
as described in this chapter, have been found from place to place
throughout the city.
C. The existence of certain conditions, as described
in this chapter, is injurious and inimical to the public health,
safety, and welfare of the residents of the City and contributes
substantially and increasingly to the deterioration of
neighborhoods.
D. Unless corrective measures are undertaken to
alleviate such conditions and assure the avoidance of future
problems in this regard, the public health, safety and general
welfare, and specifically the social and economic conditions of
the community, will be adversely affected.
E. The abatement procedures set forth in this chapter
are reasonable and afford due process to all affected persons.
F. The uses and abuses of property as described in
this chapter reasonably relate to the proper exercise of the
police power to protect the health, safety and general welfare of
the public.
8.24. 030 Definitions. Except where the context
otherwise requires, the definitions hereafter set forth shall
govern the construction of this chapter:
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A. "Attractive nuisance" shall mean any condition
instrumentality, or machine which is unsafe and unprotected and
thereby dangerous to young children by reason of their inability
to appreciate the peril therein, and which may reasonably be
expected to attract young children to the property and to risk
injury by playing with, in or on it.
B. "Code Enforcement Official" shall mean the City
Manager, or any person designated by the City Manager to enforce
the provisions of the Rancho Palos Verdes Property Maintenance
Ordinance.
C. "Occupant" shall include but not be limited to the
owner, the owner's agent or employee, a lessee, the lessee' s
agent or employee, a tenant, the tenant's agent or employee, or
any person otherwise in possession or control of any property
within the jurisdiction of the City. If the owner is the
occupant of the property, provisions relating to the owner and
the occupant shall be treated as relating to one person.
D. "Owner" shall mean the owner of record as shown on
that last equalized assessment roll of the county. For purposes
of providing notice to an owner of any action under this chapter,
owner shall include the actual owner of record, or such owner's
agent, employee or other legal representative.
E. "Property" shall include any grounds, lot, parcel,
tract or other piece of land, as well as any building, structure
or other appurtenance located thereon.
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F. "Public nuisance" shall mean anything which is
injurious to health, or is indecent, or offensive to the senses,
or an obstruction to the free use of property, so as to interfere
with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property by a
neighborhood or by any considerable number of persons in the City
irrespective of whether the annoyance or damage inflicted upon
individuals is unequal.
8.24 . 040 Responsibility for Enforcement.
The administration and enforcement of this chapter
shall be the responsibility of the Code Enforcement Official who
shall perform all duties in the manner authorized by law.
8.24. 050 Nonexclusive Regulations.
The procedures set forth in this chapter shall not be
exclusive and shall not, in any manner, limit or restrict the
City in the enforcement of other City ordinances or the abatement
of public nuisances in any other manner provided by law.
8.24. 060 Prohibited Activities and Unlawful
Conditions.
A. It shall be unlawful for any person owning,
leasing, occupying, or having charge or possession of any
property in the City to cause, or to permit, or to maintain
thereon any condition which is at variance with the level of
maintenance of surrounding properties, or which results in
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substantial detriment to the comfortable enjoyment of life or
property by others in the immediate vicinity thereof. Such
conditions include, but are not limited to, the following:
1. Inadequately maintained landscaping visible
from the public right-of-way or adjoining property, which
shall include:
(a) Lawns with grasses which create an
unsightly appearance due to lack of water or inadequate
spraying, trimming, treatment or similar maintenance;
(b) Overgrown vegetation which is unsightly
and likely to harbor rats or vermin;
(c) Trees, hedges, shrubs, plants or other
vegetation which:
(i) are dead, decayed, diseased, or
infested with insects; or
(ii) create a fire hazard or are otherwise
dangerous to the public health, safety and
welfare; or
(iii) interfere with or impede the flow of
traffic, whether vehicular or pedestrian, or
obstruct visibility, on streets, intersections,
sidewalks or other public rights-of-way; or
(iv) create an unsightly appearance due to
lack of water or inadequate spraying, trimming,
pruning, treatment or similar maintenance.
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2 . The storage of trash, garbage or refuse cans,
bins, boxes or other such containers in front or side yards
visible from the public right-of-way, except when placed for
collection pursuant to the provisions of this Code.
3 . The accumulation of junk, trash, debris,
rubbish, garbage, lumber, scrap metal, concrete, asphalt, I/
tin cans, tires, piles of earth or salvage materials which
are visible from the public right-of-way or adjoining
property.
4 . Abandoned, discarded or unused furniture,
stoves, sinks, toilets, cabinets or other household fixtures
or equipment which are not stored within an entirely
enclosed space.
5. Abandoned, wrecked, dismantled or inoperative
trailers, campers, boats and other motor vehicles which are
not stored within an entirely enclosed space.
6. Trailers, campers, boats and other mobile
vehicles or equipment parked or stored in front or side
yards or on any other portions of property used or zoned for
residential purposes, other than on a lawfully installed
paved surface.
7. Buildings, structures or appurtenances thereto
which are deemed to be "unsafe" as defined in Section 203 of
the Uniform Building Code, as adopted by Section 15. 04 . 010
of this Code.
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8. Building exteriors, walls, fences driveways or
walkways which are cracked broken, defective, deteriorated,
in disrepair, or defaced due to any writing, inscription or
I/ other marking commonly referred to as "graffiti. "
9. Buildings or structures which are abandoned,
boarded up, partially destroyed, or partially constructed
after building permits have expired.
10. Buildings or structures with deteriorating or
peeling paint which allows the exterior coverings to
deteriorate or which permits the effects of sun and water
penetration to cause decay, dry rot, warping or cracking.
11. Buildings or structures with broken windows,
doors, attic vents or underfloor vents.
12 . A swimming pool, pond or other body of water
which is abandoned, unattended, unfiltered, or otherwise
unmaintained, wherein the water becomes polluted by
bacterial growth, algae, remains of insects or deceased
animals or reptiles, rubbish, refuse, debris or other
foreign matter, thereby creating an unhealthy, unsafe or
unsightly condition.
B. It shall be unlawful for any person owning,
leasing, occupying, or having charge or possession of any
I/ property in the City to fail or refuse to remove from any
sidewalk or other public right-of-way abutting or adjoining such
property all loose earth, mounds of soil, dry grass, weeds, dead
trees, tin cans, abandoned asphalt or concrete, rubbish, refuse,
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and waste material of any kind, or any other unsanitary
substance, object or condition which may endanger or injure
neighboring property or the health, safety or welfare of the
residents in the vicinity of such property, or which may obstruct
such sidewalk or other public right-of-way and thereby endanger
or injure persons traveling thereon.
8 .24. 070 Public Nuisances.
A. It is hereby declared to be a public nuisance for
any person owning, leasing, occupying or having charge or
possession of any property in the City to cause, or to permit, or
to maintain any prohibited activity or unlawful condition thereon
described in Section 8.24. 060 of this chapter, or to maintain any
attractive nuisance.
B. The City Council shall have the power to declare by
ordinance or resolution that a particular activity or condition
other than and in addition to those described in Section 8 .24 . 060
of this chapter shall constitute a public nuisance which must be
abated.
8.24. 080 Procedures for Abatement of Public Nuisances.
A. Procedures. Whenever the Code Enforcement Official
has inspected or caused to be inspected any property and has
determined that an unlawful condition constituting a public
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nuisance exists thereon, the Code Enforcement Official may use
the procedures set forth in this section for the abatement of
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such public nuisance; provided, however, that if the public
nuisance is determined to be imminently dangerous to life or
adjacent property and to require immediate removal, repair or
isolation, the procedures set forth in Section 8. 24 . 100 hereof
may be used by the Code Enforcement Official.
B. Notice and Order of Code Enforcement Official.
1. The Code Enforcement Official shall give, or
cause to be given, a notice and order to abate the unlawful
conditions existing on the property. Such notice and order shall
be in writing and shall detail the existing unlawful conditions
which constitute a violation of this chapter. Such notice and
order shall be in substantially the following form:
NOTICE AND ORDER TO ABATE A PUBLIC NUISANCE
TO THE OWNER, AGENT OF THE OWNER, LESSEE,
OCCUPANT, OR PERSON IN POSSESSION OF THE
PROPERTY HEREINAFTER DESCRIBED:
YOUR ATTENTION IS HEREBY DIRECTED to the provisions of
Chapter 8.24 of Title 8 of the Municipal Code of the City of
Rancho Palos Verdes, California on file in the office of the City
Clerk in the City Hall.
Pursuant to the provisions of said Chapter, you are
hereby notified that
(DESCRIPTION OF UNLAWFUL CONDITIONS)
You are further notified and ordered to abate the above
specified conditions by taking the following action(s) :
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(DESCRIPTION OF ACTIONS NECESSARY TO ABATE
UNLAWFUL CONDITIONS)
Such action(s) must be completed within (insert time period) days
from the date of your receipt of this notice and order, and
thereafter you must maintain the said property free of any of the
unlawful conditions described above. It is your responsibility
to obtain all appropriate permits and to dispose of any material
or materials involved in the public nuisance in a legal manner.
In the event you fail to complete such work within the
time hereinabove mentioned, the undersigned shall cause the
appropriate action to be taken and completed, and the charges
therefor will be a lien upon the said property or upon the lot or
parcel of land adjoining and abutting the public right-of-way or
sidewalk in the event the public right-of-way or sidewalk is to
be cleaned or otherwise protected.
You are advised that any person holding record title or
having any interest in the property may appeal from this notice
and order, or any determination of the Code Enforcement Official,
to the City Council within ten (10) days from the date of service
of this notice and order. Written notice of such appeal must be
filed in the office of the City Clerk in the City Hall at 30940
Hawthorne Boulevard, Ranch Palos Verdes, California 90274 . If no
appeal is filed within the time prescribed, the determination of
the Code Enforcement Official shall be final.
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You are further advised that this notice and order may
be recorded against the property in the Office of the County
Recorder.
The said building, structure, improvement, or property
is situated in the City of Rancho Palos Verdes, Los Angeles
County, California, on premises described as LOT
BLOCK , TRACT , and commonly known as
Dated at Rancho Palos Verdes, California this day
of , 19 .
Code Enforcement Official
City of Rancho Palos Verdes,
California
2 . The notice and order shall be given by
delivering the notice personally to the owner, agent of the
owner, lessee, occupant, or person in possession of the premises
described in the notice and order, or by sending such notice by
registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, addressed to the
owner, agent of the owner, lessee, occupant or person in
possession of the premises therein described at his or her last
known address. The address of the owner or owners as it appears
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conclusively deemed to be the proper address for the mailing of
such notice. If mailed, such notice shall be deemed to have been
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received three (3) days after the date the notice was deposited
in the United States mail.
3 . In the absence of fraud, no error or mistake
in the service of the notice and order, and no failure on the
part of any property owner to receive the notice and order, shall
in any manner affect the validity of any proceedings hereunder as
to any other person duly served.
4 . Proof of service of the notice and order shall
be documented at the time of service by a declaration under
penalty of perjury executed by the person effecting service and
declaring the time and manner in which service was made.
5. Subsequent to service of the notice and order,
the Code Enforcement Official may file in the Office of the
County Recorder a certificate containing a legal description of
the subject property and certifying that a public nuisance exists
on the property and that the owner has been so notified. The
Code Enforcement Official shall file a new certificate in the
Office of the County Recorder, stating that the public nuisance
has been abated, whenever any of the following has occurred:
(a) The corrections ordered have been
completed so that a public nuisance no longer
exists on the property described in the
certificate; or
(b) The notice and order is rescinded by the
City Council upon appeal; or
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(c) The City has caused the public nuisance
to be abated and the costs of abatement have been
paid.
11/ C. Extension of Time to Perform Work.
Upon receipt of a written request from any person
required to comply with the notice and order, the Code
Enforcement Official may grant an extension of time within which
to complete said abatement, if the Code Enforcement Official
determines that such an extension of time will not create a
situation imminently dangerous to life or property. The Code
Enforcement Official shall have the authority to place reasonable
conditions on any such extension.
D. Appeals.
Within ten (10) days after the date of service of a
notice and order, the owner, agent of the owner, lessee,
occupant, or person in possession of the property who may have
been served with a notice and order, or any person interested in
the property affected by such notice and order, may appeal to the
City Council as to the requirements of such notice and order.
Such appeal shall be in writing, shall state the objections of
the person filing the appeal, shall be filed with the City Clerk
within the time specified herein, and shall be presented to the
I/ City Council by the City Clerk at its next regular meeting. The
City Council shall thereupon proceed to hear and pass upon the
appeal. The City Council shall, by resolution, determine whether
the Code Enforcement Official shall proceed in accordance with
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the notice and order as given, or as modified by the City
Council, or not at all, and its decision thereon shall be final
and conclusive. Said hearing may be continued by the City
Council from time to time as it deems necessary.
8 . 24 . 090 Abatement of Public Nuisances by the City.
A. If the owner, agent of the owner, lessee, occupant,
or person in possession of the property who may have been served
with a notice and order shall fail to take action as required by
the notice within the time therein specified, or as extended by
the City Council, and in accordance with the provisions of this
chapter, the Code Enforcement Official shall take action as
specified in the notice and order to abate the public nuisance
existing on the property.
B. Abatement of the public nuisance may, in the dis-
cretion of the Code Enforcement Official, be performed by City
forces or by a private contractor engaged by the City pursuant to
the provisions of this Code.
C. Notwithstanding compliance with the notice and
order, the owner, and any other persons having an interest in the
property described in the notice, shall in all events be jointly
and severally liable for all costs incurred by the City in
securing such compliance, including those costs identified in
Section 8.24 . 110A. Moneys due the City pursuant to this
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subsection may be recovered in an appropriate civil action.
Alternatively, costs may be recovered by the City in the same
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manner that abatement costs are recovered pursuant to this
chapter.
I/ 8.24 . 100 Alternative Procedures for Abatement of
Imminently Dangerous Public Nuisances.
Whenever the Code Enforcement Official determines that
a public nuisance is so imminently dangerous to life or adjacent
property that such condition must be immediately removed,
repaired or isolated, the Code Enforcement Official may implement
the following procedures:
A. Notice. The Code Enforcement Official shall
attempt to make contact through a personal interview, or by
telephone, with the owner of the property or the person, if any,
occupying or otherwise in real or apparent charge and control
thereof. In the event such contact is made, the Code Enforcement
Official shall notify such person, or persons, of the danger
involved and require that such condition be immediately removed,
repaired or isolated so as to preclude harm to any person or
property.
B. Abatement. If the Code Enforcement Official is
unable to make contact as hereinabove noted, or if the
appropriate persons, after notification by the Code Enforcement
I/ Official, do not take action within such time as may be
specified by such official, then the Code Enforcement Official
may take all actions deemed necessary to remove, repair or
isolate such dangerous condition or conditions, with the use of
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City forces or a contractor engaged pursuant to the provisions of
this Code.
C. Costs. The Code Enforcement Official shall keep
an itemized account of the costs incurred by the City in
removing, repairing or isolating such condition or conditions.
Such costs may be recovered by the City in the same manner that
abatement costs are recovered pursuant to this chapter.
8 .24 . 110 Account of Abatement Costs.
A. The Code Enforcement Official, in conjunction with
the Director of Finance, shall keep an itemized account of all
costs incurred by the City in the abatement of any public
nuisance under this chapter. Such costs may include, but are not
limited to, any and all direct costs and expenses related to such
items as investigation, boundary determination, measurement,
personnel salaries and benefits, operational overhead, fees for
experts or consultants, legal costs or expenses, including
attorneys' fees, claims against the City arising as a consequence
of the public nuisance, clerical and administrative costs, and
procedures associated with collecting moneys due hereunder.
B. Upon completion of the abatement work, the Code
Enforcement Official shall prepare a report specifying the work
done, the itemized costs of the work necessary to abate the
public nuisance, a description of the property involved, and the
names and addresses of the persons entitled to notice pursuant to
Section 8 .24. 080 of this chapter. Any such report may include
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costs on any number of properties, whether or not contiguous to
each other, and whether or not under the same ownership. The
report shall be filed with the City Clerk.
8.24 . 120. Procedure for Special Assessment,.
A. Hearing Notice. Within ten (10) days after the
filing of the report referred to in Section 8.24 . 110, the City
Clerk shall fix a time and place for hearing and passing upon the
report. The City Clerk shall cause notice of the proposed
assessment, as set forth in the report, to be given in the manner
and to the persons specified in Section 8 . 24 . 080. Such notice
shall contain a description of the property sufficient to enable
the persons served to identify it, and shall specify the day,
hour, and place when the City Council will hear and pass upon the
report, together with any objections or protests which may be
raised by any person liable to be assessed for the costs of such
abatement. Notice of the hearing shall be given not less than
fifteen days prior to the. time fixed by the Clerk for the
hearing, and shall also be published once, at least fifteen (15)
days prior to the date of the hearing, in a newspaper of general
circulation published in the County of Los Angeles.
B. Protests. Any interested person may file a
I/ written protest with the City Clerk at any time prior to the time
set for the hearing on the report of the Code Enforcement
Official. Each such protest shall contain a description of the
property in which the person signing the protest is interested
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and the grounds of such protest. The City Clerk shall endorse on
every such protest the date and time of filing, and shall present
such protest to the City Council at the time set for hearing.
8 . 24 . 130. Hearing on Proposed Assessment.
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Upon the day and hour fixed for the hearing the City
Council shall consider the report of the Code Enforcement
Official, together with any protests which have been filed with
the City Clerk. The City Council may make such revisions,
corrections, or modifications in the report as it may deem just,
and when the City Council is satisfied with the correctness of
the assessment, the report and the proposed assessment, as
submitted, or as revised, corrected, or modified, shall be
confirmed by resolution. The decision of the City Council on
the report and the assessment and on all protests shall be final
and conclusive. The City Council may continue the hearing from
time to time as it deems necessary.
8. 24. 140. Contest of Assessment.
The validity of any assessment levied under the
provisions of this chapter shall not be contested in any action
or proceeding unless such action or proceeding is commenced
within thirty (30) days after the assessment is confirmed by
resolution of the City Council.
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8. 24. 150. Notice of Lien: Form and Contents.
A. Notice of Lien. Immediately upon confirmation of
the assessment by the City Council, the Finance Director shall
execute and file in the Office of the County Recorder a
certificate in substantially the following form:
NOTICE OF LIEN
Pursuant to the authority vested in the Code
Enforcement Official by the provisions of Title 8, Chapter 8. 24
of the Rancho Palos Verdes Municipal Code, the Code Enforcement
Official on or about the day of , 19
caused the abatement of a nuisance on real property, and the City
Council of the City of Rancho Palos Verdes, on the day
of , 19 , assessed the cost of such abatement upon
said real property, and the same has not been paid nor any part
thereof, and the City of Rancho Palos Verdes does hereby claim a
lien on said real property for the net expense of the doing of
said abatement in the amount of $ , and this amount
shall be a lien upon said real property until the sum of
$ , with interest at the rate of six (6%) per annum from
, 19 , has been paid in full and discharged of
record.
The real property hereinbefore mentioned, and upon
which a lien is claimed, is that certain parcel of land in the
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City of Rancho Palos Verdes, County of Los Angeles, State of
California, and more particularly described as follows:
(DESCRIPTION)
Dated: this day of , 19
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CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL OF
THE CITY OF RANCHO PALOS VERDES
(ACKNOWLEDGEMENT)
B. Recordation. Immediately upon the recording of the
notice of lien the assessment shall constitute a lien on the real
property assessed. Such lien shall, for all purposes, be upon a
parity with the lien of state and local taxes.
8.24. 160. Procedures for Collection with Regular
Taxes.
A. Assessment Book. The notice of lien, after
recording, shall be delivered to the Auditor of Los Angeles
County, who shall enter the amount on the county assessment book
opposite the description of the particular property, and the
amount shall be collected together with all other taxes against
the property.
B. Collection. The amount set forth in the notice of
lien shall thereafter be collected at the same time and in the
same manner as ordinary City taxes are collected, and shall be
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subject to the same penalties and interest and to the same
procedure under foreclosure and sale in case of delinquency as
provided for ordinary City taxes. All laws applicable to the
levy, collection and enforcement of City taxes are hereby made
applicable to such assessment.
C. Refunds. The City Council may order a refund of
all or part of the assessment paid pursuant to this chapter if it
finds that all or part of the assessment was erroneously levied.
An assessment or part thereof shall not be refunded unless a
claim is filed with the City Clerk within six months after the
assessment became due and payable. The claim shall be verified
by the person who paid the assessment, or the legal
representative of such person.
8. 24 . 170. Remedies of Private Parties.
The provisions of this chapter shall in no manner
adversely affect the right of the owner, lessee, or occupant of
any such property to recover all costs and expenses imposed by
this chapter from any person responsible for creating or
maintaining the public nuisance.
8. 24 . 180. Right of Entry.
A. Whenever necessary to make an inspection to
enforce any of the provisions of this chapter, or whenever the
Code Enforcement Official has reasonable cause to believe that
there exists in any building or upon any property any unlawful
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condition or prohibited activity which makes such building or
property unsafe, dangerous or hazardous, the Code Enforcement
Official may enter such building or property at all reasonable
times to inspect the same or to perform any duty imposed upon
the Code Enforcement Official by this chapter; provided, however,
that if such building or property be occupied, the Code
Enforcement Official shall first present proper credentials and
request entry; and if such building or property be unoccupied,
the Code Enforcement Official shall first make a reasonable
effort to locate the owner or other persons having charge or
control of the building or property and request entry. If such
entry is refused, the Code Enforcement Official shall have
recourse to every remedy provided by law to secure entry.
B. It shall be unlawful for any person, including an
owner, agent of the owner, lessee, or anyone in possession of any
property within the City to refuse to allow the Code Enforcement
Official, or a contractor engaged by the City, to enter upon the
property at any time during the hours of daylight for the purpose
of the abatement of a public nuisance or to obstruct, impede or
interfere in any manner with the Code Enforcement Official, or a
contractor engaged by the City, in any work undertaken pursuant
to the provisions of this chapter.
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8 .24 . 190. Penalty for Violation.
Any person violating any of the provisions or failing
to comply with any of the requirements of this chapter shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction therefor, shall be
punishable as provided for in Chapter 1. 08 of this Code.
8 .24 . 200. Severability.
If any section, sentence, clause or phrase of this
chapter is, for any reason, held by a court of competent
jurisdiction to be invalid, such determination shall not affect
the validity of the remaining portions of this chapter. The City
Council declares that it would have adopted this chapter, and
each section, sentence, clause and phrase hereof, irrespective of
the fact that any one or more sections, sentences, clauses or
phrases be declared invalid. "
Section 3 . Chapter 12 . 08 of Title 12 of the Code of
the City of Rancho Palos Verdes is hereby amended by repealing in
its entirety Section 12 . 08. 100 thereof, and by redesignating
Section 12 . 08. 110 as Section 12 . 08. 100.
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Section 4 . The City Clerk shall certify to the
adoption of this Ordinance and shall cause the same to be
published in the manner prescribed by law.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 5TH day of
JULY , 1988.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS
CITY OF RANCHO PALOS VERDES )
I, JO PURCELL, City Clerk of the City of Rancho Palos
Verdes do hereby certify that the whole number of members
of the City Council of said City is five; that the foregoing
ordinance, being Ordinance No. 235 , was duly and regularly
adopted by the City Council of said. City at a regular meeting
thereof held on July 5 , 1988 , and the same was passed and
adopted by the following roll call vote:
AYES: HUGHES, HINCHLIFFE, McTAGGART AND MAYOR RYAN
NOES: NONE
ABSENT: BACHARACH
ABSTAIN: NONE
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ORDINANCE/RESOLUTION NO. ORD. NO. 235 FILET/
SUBJECT: AMENDING TITLE 8 OF THE RANCHO PALOS VERDES MUNICIPAL CODE BY REPEALING
CERTAIN SECTIONS OF CHAPTER 8.12 AND ADDING THERETO CHAPTER 8.24 RELATING
TO PROPERTY MAINTENANCE AND AMENDING TITLE 12 THEREOF BY REPEALING SECTIONS 12.08. 100
OF CHAPTER 12.08
INTRODUCED: 6/21/88 ADOPTED: 7/5/88 POSTED/PUBLISHED 7/13/88
ORDINANCE DISTRIBUTION: RESOLUTION DISTRIBUTION:
City Attorney PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
Richards, Watson, Dreyfuss & Gershon /A)P9
333 South Hope St. , 38th Floor IRONMEI�'TAL SERVICES
04431*
Los Angeles, CA 90071.
__LEISURE SERVICES
BOOK PUBLISHING COMPANY 7/&t?
201 Westlake Avenue N. ..COMMUNITY SERVICES DEPT.
Seattle, WA 98109
_CITY MANAGER
PACIFIC TELEPHONE
19310 Gateway Drive, Rm 208 _STATION COMMANDER
Torrance, CA 90502 26123 Narbonne Ave.
Lomita, CA 90717
SOUTHERN CALIF. WATER SERVICE
5837 CREST R.D. WEST COUNTY ASSESSOR
RANCHO PALOS VERDES, CA 90274 500 Hall of Administration
Los Angeles, CA 90012 •
REGISTAR
5557 'Ferguson Drive LEAGUE OF CALIFORNIA CITIES
Los Angeles, CA 90022 702 Hilton Center
ATTN: Margaret Miller Los Angeles, CA 90017
Election Administration •
RECORD ER •- L.A. COUNTY DEPT. of PUBLIC WORKS /Public
ATTN: City Services Roads
227 N. Broadway 1540 Alcazar Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012 Los Angeles, CA 90033
SCHOOL SPCA
5026 West Jefferson Blvd.
HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION Los Angeles, CA 90016
APPLICANT SO. CALIFORNIA GAS COMPANY
22741 Hawthorne Blvd.
-.M. CABLEVISION Torrance, CA 90501
31244 P.V. Drive West, Suite 207
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90274 SO. CALIFORNIA EDISON CO.
P. 0. Box 2944
AEND ALL ORDINANCES TO: 7 3/i
/ Torrance, CA 90509
Institute of Governmental Stu ies
Library /'POSTED AT THE FOLLOWING locations: �7) 3 ) 7
109 Moses Hall v/1. City Hall
University of California e„elh •
Berkeley, CA 94720 /2. Los Angeles County Fire Station
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Miraleste Station, 4000 Miraleste Plaza
3. U.S. Post Office
28649 S. Western Ave
4. Ladera Linda, 5. Hesse Park, 6. Rancho Palos
Verdes Park