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RESOLUTION NO. 2521 A RESOLUTION ORDERING T}FE STREET SUPERINTENDENT TO ABATE THE PUBLIC NUISANCE HERETOFORE DECLARED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA TO EXIST IN THE CITY OF SANTA ANA, TO-WIT: WEE~S VKiICH BEAR SEEDS OF A WINGY OR DOW~Vf NATURE A~D ATTAIN SUCII A LARGE GROWTII AS TO BEC0~ A FIRE ~NACE ~tEN DRY AND WttICH ARE NOXIOUS AND DANGEROUS, GROWING UPON CERTAIN STREETS, SIDEWALKS AND PRIVATE PROPERTY IN THE CITY OF SANTA ANA, BY HAVING THE WEEDS REFERRED TO RELIOVED. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF S~JTA ANA DO RESOLVEA S FOLLOWS: SECTION 1: Pursuant to provisions of an Act of the Legislature of the State of California, entitled "An Act Autho~izing 51tuuicipalities to Declare Noxious or Dangerous Weeds Growing upon the Streets or Sidewalks or Private Property within 2~unicipalities to be a public Nuisance, Creating a Lien upon the Property Fronting upon such Streets or Sidewalks or upon ~hich such Nuisance Exdsts for the Cost of Abating the Same" approved May 26, 1915, end 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 and attain such a large growth as to become a fire menace when dry and which are noxious and dangerous, growing upon the streets or sidewalks in front of or upon all that private property described in Resolution No. 2516 of the City Council of the City of Santa Ana passed and adopted on the 15th day of Hatch 1937, to which Resolution reference is hereby made for further particular description of said private property. 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 StrDet 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 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, pro- vided, that before said report is submitted to said City Council, a copy of the same shall be posted for at least three days prior t'heroto, on or near the Chambe~ 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 ~he same, together with any objections which may be raised by any of the property o~ners liable to be assessed for the work of abating said nuisance and thereupon make such modificstions 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, and, as is made and confirmed, shall constitute a lien on said property for the amount of such assess- ments, respectively, and thereafter said amounts shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as ordinary municipal taxes are collected and shall