Chapter 10.20
Penalty

Sections:

10.20.010 General Penalty.

10.20.020 Abatement of Nuisance.

10.20.010 General Penalty.

A person found guilty of violating any provision of SMC title 10, division I, is subject to a maximum penalty of imprisonment in jail for one year and a fine of five thousand dollars for each offense or for each day of a continuing violation, except as otherwise provided.

[Ord. C31589; Passed: 3/25/1996]

Cross Reference: SMC 1.02.950; RCW 3.20.040.

10.20.020 Abatement of Nuisance.

A.  In addition to the procedures for warrants of abatement provided in RCW chapter 7.48, the Spokane Municipal Court has jurisdiction, by way of suspended or deferred sentence, to require a person found guilty of a nuisance to abate the same. It may also direct the confiscation and disposition of any animal or other personal property involved.

B.  Proceedings to abate a nuisance as described in SMC 12.02.0202 or 12.02.0208 are initiated by resolution of the city council, adopted after not less that five days’ notice to the owner of the property. The resolution describes the property involved and the hazardous condition and requires the owner to abate the nuisance within the time fixed therein after notice of the resolution is given.

C.  If the nuisance condition is not abated after notice is given, the City may abate the same and all costs, fees and expenses thereof shall be a charge against the owner and a lien against the property.

D.  Notice of the lien herein authorized is, as nearly as practicable, in substantially the same form, filed with the same officer, within the same time and manner, and enforced and foreclosed, as is provided by law for liens for labor and materials.

E.  Nothing in this code is a limitation upon the power of the City to declare a nuisance and abate the same without resort to the courts and to impose fines or penalties upon persons who create, maintain, or permit nuisances.

[Ord. C32236; Passed: 8/3/1998]

Division II. License Code