§ 30-103. Code enforcement officer to notify owner or possessor to destroy and/or remove noxious growths or accumulation of junk, trash, or debris on property.

(a)

In the event the owner, lessee or possessor or any other person in charge of or in control of premises, whether as owner, tenant, lessee, occupant, or otherwise, of any real estate within the corporate limit of the city fails to comply with the provisions of section 30-100, 30-101 or 30-102, the code enforcement officer or such other city employee as designated by the mayor is hereby authorized and empowered to notify the owner, lessee or possessor or any other person in charge of or in control of premises, whether as owner, tenant, lessee, occupant, or otherwise, and to direct said owner or other possessor to cut, destroy or remove such weeds, grass, noxious growths or other accumulations of junk, trash or debris found growing, lying or located on such property, or to remove any abandoned, junk or otherwise inoperable motor vehicle from such property. The notice required herein shall be delivered by certified mail, return receipt requested, and shall be addressed to the owner, lessee or other possessor at his last known address, said owner to be determined by the last assessment roll of the city, or at the discretion of the mayor or his designee, by publication of a notice in the legal journal of the city of the requirement of each owner or possessor to comply with this section, said publication to run for two consecutive days, advising each owner or possessor that he has ten days after the notice or publication within which to do the work himself.

(b)

If the notice is addressed to a person other than the owner, which shall be established from the records of the parish assessor, a copy of such notice shall also be sent to such owner in the same manner as above prescribed.

(c)

The notices provided for in this section shall advise the owner or other possessor of the necessity of bringing the property in compliance with all sections in the article within ten days of the date of the notice or that the city may at the expiration of such period of time cause such issuance to be abated, and bring the property into compliance with all sections of this article.

(Ord. No. 8/98, 6-8-98; Ord. No. 21/98, 10-12-98)