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RESOLUTION NO. 2422 A RESOLUTION ORDERING THE STREET SUPERINTENDENT. TO ABATE THE PUBLIC NUISANCE HERETOFORE DECLARED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA TO E~IST IN THE CITY OF SANTA ANA, TO. WIT: E~EES WHICH BEAR SEEDS OF A WI NGY OR DOWNY NATURE AND ATTAIN SUCH A LARGE GROWTH AS TO BECOME A FIRE MENACE WHEN DRY AND WHICH ARE NOXIOUS AND DANGEROUS, GROWING UPON CERTAIN STREETS, SIDEWALKS AND PRIVATE PROPERTY IN THE CITY OF SANTA ANA, BY HAVING THE WEEDS REFERRED TO REMOVEE. The City Council of the City of Santa Ana resolves as follows: Section 1. Pursuant to provisions of an Act of the Legislature of the State of California, entitled "An Act Authorizing Municipalities to Declare Noxious or Dangerc Weeds Orowing 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 th$ Sam~" 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 Santa Ana, to-wit: Weeds which bear seeds of a wingy or downy nature aud attain such a large growt~ as to become a fire menace when dry and which are noxious and dangerous, g~wing upon the streets or sidewalks in front of or upon all that private property described in Resolution No. 2417 of City Council of the City of Santa Ana passed and adopted on the 15th day of April, 1935 to which Resolution reference is hereby made for further particula~ description of said private p~operty. Section 2. Any property owner shall have the right to have any of said weeds removed at his own expense, providing the same is done prior to the arrival 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 o3 or on each separate lot or parcel of land where the work is done by him or his deputies, and shall render an itemized report, in writing to the City Council of the City of Santa.Aha showing the cost of removing such weeds on each separate lot, or in front thereof, or both, provided, that before said report is submitted to said City Council, a copy of the same shall be posted for at hast three days prior 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 Coumcil shall hear the same, together with any objections vhich 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 report 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, ~d, as this made and confirmed shall constitute a llen on said property for the amount of such assessments, respectively, and thereafter said amotunts shall be collected at the smme time and in the same mauner 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~unicipal taxes. I hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was adopted by the City Council of the City of Santa Ana, at an adjourned re,ilar meeting thereof held on the s