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A. Upon determining that a nuisance may exist, the City Manager, building official or other appropriate enforcement authority may conspicuously post notices on the property on which the nuisance exists, as follows:

1. One notice to each separately owned parcel of property of not over fifty feet frontage;

2. Not more than two notices to any such parcel of one hundred feet frontage or less;

3. Notices at not more than one hundred feet apart if the frontage of such a parcel is greater than one hundred feet.

B. The notice shall also be mailed to each person to whom such described property is assessed on the last equalized municipal assessment roll available on the date the resolution was adopted by the City Council

C. The notices posted shall be posted and mailed at least fifteen days prior to the time for hearing objections by the City Council.

D. Such notice shall be substantially in the following form:

“ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE RE: ABATEMENT OF PUBLIC NUISANCE.

“TO: :

“YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED to appear before. the Belvedere City Council on the day of 19 , at 450 San Rafael Avenue, Belvedere, California, at the hour of o’clock m., or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard, and show cause, if any you have, why that certain , should not be condemned as a public nuisance and said nuisance be abated by its removal or , and why the cost of such abatement should not be assessed upon the property from which the nuisance is abated, such cost to constitute a lien upon said property until paid.

“DATED this day of , 19___.

“City Clerk”

E. If the City elects to seek recovery of its attorneys’ fees incurred in the nuisance abatement action or proceeding, the notice required by this Section shall also give notice that such attorneys’ fees will be included in the costs of abatement to be assessed upon the property. (Ord. 98-7 § 2, 1998; Ord. 76-4 § 1, 1976; prior code § 13A-3.)