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RESOLUTION NO. 2185, A RESOLUTION ORDERING THE STREET SUPERINTENDENT TO ABATE THE PUBLIC NUISANCE ~ERETOFORE DECLARED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA TO EXIST IN~ THE CITY OF SANTA ANA~ TO-WIT: WE~EDS WHICH BEAR SEEDS OF A WINGY OR DOWIIY NATURE AND ATTAIN SUCH A LARGE GROWTH AS TO BECOME A FIRE MENACE WHEN DRY AND WHICH ARE NOXIOUS A~ DANGER- OUS~ GROWING UPON CERTAIN STREETS; SIDEWALKS AND PRIVATE PROPERTY IN THE CITY OF SANTA ANA, BY HAVING THE WEEDS REFERRED TOREMOVED. The City Council of the City of Santa Ana resolves as follows: Section 1. Pursuant to the provisions of an Act of the Legislature of the State of California, entitled "An Act Authorizing Municipalities to Declare N~xious or Dangerous Weeds Growing upon the Streets or Sidewalks or Private Property within Municipalities to be a Public Nuisance,.Creating a Lien upon the Property Fronting upon such Streets or Sidewalks or upon which such Nuisance Exists for the Cost of Abating the Same", approved May 26, 1915, and amendments thereto, the City Council of the City of Santa Ana having acquired jurisdiction so to do, hereby orders the Street Superintendent of said City to abate the public nuisance heretofore declared to exist in said City of Sauta Ana, to-wit: Weeds which bear seeds of a wingy or downy nature and attain such a large growth as to become a fire menace when d~y and which are noxious and dangerous, E~owing upon the streets or sidewalks in front of or upon private property described ss follows, to-wit: (SEE %~EED FILE) Section 2. Any property owner sh~ll have the right to have any of said weeds removed at his own expense, providing the same is,~one prior to the a~rival of the Street Superintendent or his representatives to do the same. Section 3. The Street Superintendent shall keep an account of the cost of abating said nuisance in front of or on each separate lot or parcel of land where the work is done by him or his deputies, and shall render an ite~zed report, in writing to the City Council of the City of Santa Ana showing the cost of removing such weeds on each separate lot, or in front thereof, or both, pro- vided, that before said report is submitted to said City Council, a copy of the same shall be posted for at least tl~ee days prl~r thereto, on or near the Chamber Door of said City Council, together with a notice of the time when said report shall be submitted to the City Council for confirmation. At the time fixed for receiving and considering said report, the City Council shall hear the same, together with any objections which may be raised by any of the property owners liable to be assessed for the work of abating said nuisance and .thereupon make such modifications in the report as they deem necessary, after which said ~eport shall be confirmed. The amounts of the cost for abating such nuisance in front of or upon the various parcels of land mentioned in said report shall constitute special assessments against the respective parcels of land, and, as this made and confirmed shall constitute a lien on said property for the amount o~ such assessments, respectively, and thereafter said amounts shall be collected at the same time and in the same m~uer as ordinary municipal taxes are collected and shall be subject to the same penalties and the same procedure under foreclosure and sale in case of delinquency as provided for ordinary municipal taxes. I hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was adopted by the City Council of the City of Santa Ana, at a regular meeting thereof held on the 21st d~ of April, 1930, by the following vote, to-wit: