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HomeMy WebLinkAbout781 - ADMIN Ordinance - City Council - 1961/04/24Or f:.na1 2/21/61 ORDINANCE NO. 781 AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE REMOVAL OF SNOW, ICE, AND RUB- BISH FROM SIDEWALKS, THE ELIMIN- ATION OF WEEDS FROM PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PROPERTY AND THE REPAIR OF SIDEWALKS AND THE COLLECTION OF THE COSTS OF SUCH WORK WHEN" DONE BY THE CITY AS A SPECIAL ASSESSMENT AGAINST PROPERTY BENEFITED THE CITY OF S T . LOUIS PARK DOES ORDAIN: APRg,24, 1961 SECTION 1. The removal of certain nuisances by current services and special assessments for the cost of such current services as hereinafter set forth shall be as follows: Soctian 1:650. Definition. The term "current service" as used in this ordinance means one or more of the. following: removal of dangerous snow, ice or rubbish from public sidewalks; elimination of weeds from public or private property; and repair of unsafe sidewalks. Section 1:651. Snow, Ice and Rubbish a Public Nuisance on Sidewalks - Removal by Owner. All snow, ice and rubbish being on a public sidewalk in such quantities, or in such a manner, as to render the use of the sidewalk by a pedistrian un- safe, is hereby declared to be a public nuisance. The owner and the occupant of any property abutting a public sidewalk shall maintain such sidewalk in such a manner that it shall not be a public nuisance as defined herein. Section 1:652. Snow, Ice and Rubbish a Pzblic Nuisance - Removal by City. Upon discovery by the Director of Public Works, or his authorized sub- ordinates, of a public nuisance as defined in Section 1:651, he may forth- with cause the snow or ice or rubbish constituting such nuisance to be rern^ted. Hc shall keep a record showing the total cost of such removal f::r each such separate lot or tract of land abutting such sidewalk and 5h111 deliver such information t� the City Manager. Section 1.653. Repair of Sidewalks - Duty of Owner. The r of any property tvi.thin the City abutting a public sidewalk shall keep the sidewalk in repair and :;afc: for use by pedestrians. Repairs shall be made in accordance with standard specifications on -file in the office ,f the City Clerk. -1- Section 1:654. Repair of Sidewalks - Duty of City. Upon discovery by the Director of Public Works, or his authorized sub- )rdinate, of any public sidewalk which is unsafe and in need of repairs he shall report the facts to the City Manager who in turn shall report them to the City Council. The Council thereupon, by resolution, may order the City Manager t() cause the sidewalk to be repai`rz d and made safe for pedestrians by city crews or by contract let'in accordance with law. The City Engineer shall keep a record of the total cost of the repair f:r teach such separate let or tract of land abutting such sidewalk and shall deliver such information to the City Manager. Section 1:655. Weed Elimination - Duty of Owner. Any weeds, whether noxious or not as defined by state law, growing upon any public or privately owned lot or tract of land outside the traveled portion of any street or alley in the City of St. Louis Park to a greater height than 12 inches are hereby declared to be a nuisance. The owner and the occupant shall abate or prevent such nuisance on such property and on land outside the traveled portion of the street or alley abutting on such prow rtv. Section 1:656. Weed Elimination - Notice. On or before June 1 of each year, and at such other times as ordered by resolution of the council, the City Clerk shall publish once in the cfficial newspaper a notice directing owners and occupants of property within the City to destroy all weeds declared by Section 1:655 to be a nuisance and stating that if not s destroyed within ten days (10) after publication f the notice, the weeds will be destroyed by the Director of Public Works at the expense of the owner and if expense thereof be not paid prior to the following September 1st the charge for such work will be made a special assessment against the property concerned. Section 1:657. Weed Elimination - City Removal. If the owner or occupant of any property in the City fails to comply with the notice, within ten days after its publication, the Director of Public Works may cut and remove such weeds. He shall keep a record showing the total cost of such weed removal for each such separate lot or tract of land and shall deliver such information to the City Manager. Section 1:658. Personal Liability. The owner of pro- perty for which a current service has been performed shall be personally liable for the cost of such service. As soon as the current service has been completed and the cost thereof determined, the City Manager shall prepare a bill stating the amount due for such current service and stating that if the same be not paid prior to September 1st the same will be made a special assessment against the property concerned and shall mail such bill and notice to the owner and thereupon the amount shall be immediately due and payable at the office of the City Treasurer. -2- Section 1:659. Assessment. On or before September 1st of each year, the clerk shall list the total unpaid charges for each type of curr�r.t services against each separate lot or tract of land to which they are attributable under this ordinance. The Council may then spread the charges against property benefited as a special assessr^ent under Minnesota Statutes, Sccticn /..29.101 and other pertinent statutes for -ertification to the county auditor and collection for the following year aloL. ; with current taxes. SECTION 2. Separability. In case any section of this ordinance is held invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, the invalidity shall extend only to tha section affected and Dther sections of the ordinance shall continue in full force and effect. SECTION 3. Effective Date. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect 15 -days after its passage and publication. Adopted by the City Council Aril 24, • Mayo Atte st: Prepare i by: City Clerk j l'ievic.we ' for administration: Citi ivianager Approved as to form and legality: A� • City Attorney • AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION St. Louis Park Dispatch 5407 Excelsior BI id. St. Lo.iis Park, Minnesota State of Minnesota County of Hennepin (SS .O'1% E 1 IL ru'. betn.Z duly sworn on oath s,ya that he now 1s and during all the time hereln- ..a•ed ^a1 been JOHN E TILTON. the pub.lshe• and printer of the newspaper known lire tri Lo.r., Pa -n Dspa•ch and has full 1_nowledge of the facts herein stated :o no -e than one .ear Imrnedlatel: prior to the publication therein of the printed Ordinance No 281_ 31e_l)roiiditg-far--tha--Bemp?sl-0t-Sao. -10ae and Rubbish Brom Sidewalks. •n . .ac'1ed call neuspaper waa printed and published In the Engllah language from Its �I r. u: •re n pubt,c t.lun within the County o: Hennepin. State of Minnesota. on Thursday of 1•' .7e••k 1 .-wt..nn ,cid sheet form egul..tleht In space to 450 running Inches of single column -<, 1 .•• e, .7171.• '1.45 been issued from a known office established in said place of publication . dderl norrmen and the necessary material for preparing and printing the same: ... •-I LOLL-. P libl DISPATCH has had n Its makeup not less than twenty-five percent , ..c.\, e(,'.1^1 L dc.oted .o luc.tl news of 1 steres. to said community it purports to serve. the A u 0' .7'uCf h.ts ht en done In its said known place of publication. has contained general •.'1.7 1, 1t, and n.Lscelinn, has not dupl cated any other publlentlon• has not been entire - u. 1 ,7 u• i, rt 1t., p a.e matter and advcr.1semen:s. has been circulated at and near Ita said pulPic..:io•1 :o t' a extent o: 240 copies regularly delivered to paying subscribers; has been •1. 4.7 Anand ciao rn Matter In local post office of 118 said place Of publication; that there b• • 0 1 ','t 1•. the o:ace of the County Auditor of Bald county the affidavit of a person haw- ; • 1.. d r•,o.7ltd t of the facts cons:nut! lg Its qualifications as a newspaper for publlcaUon 411u :h .t its publishers have ,romplled with all demands of said County Auditor ,, u-, , u 1,s odd rillAU::c•ttlon A copy of tach Issue has been filed wlth the Sate Historical sur L. :. Paul r ... :*e p-InteC Ordinance HO-x3I_Ee-Proridiag-.for--th.-3e a al of Snow. Ice- and Rubbish - gro.n-Sidewalks p.-, hereon was cu: from the columns or$zrf newspaper. waa published •1••t i•1 :•1e t.ngliuh language once a weel, for.. OIIe __successive weeks: that It was --so ;0.bli'hod on the 27th- say of _ April 1P' and '1• -en: ter ur _of car h week to and Including the o• I9_ _ _ a Id that the following 1a a copy of the lower case • p vibe +' :01 1., acr_novddged •o ha.e been the size and kind of type uaed In the publtea- :int: 0' said EL Ordt.nantwsyip 81- 1te Of Snow abcdefahlIkl In+ c 7.7',•1-.h. r ,.nd rworn to before me thh. • Publisher 1961 Thomas D a:llllama. :rotary Public. Hennepin County, Minn My Commission Expires June 16. 1962 SND roe K4nr A rt IS irURTHER ORDERED that within four months from the date hereat all creditors of said Decedent 111. their claims m tuts hurt. Proof• will be heard and claims e:tamtned end adjusted before this Court Fon fueeda)1 {tge. : :`l6 ( (Odlml:�f?obOlit '_ L-L`r Xi •OISDINAIQCE IVOh 7i1 `� ' ' AN ' ORDDIA?fC1f +PROVW1XO FOR, site, nessoVAL' Os'tTrfOW • , • : JCR. .AND.,( ;RUBBISH. '.. mossSIDEWALKS. W THE , ` •ELDIID(/A: ! TION;or . WEEDS••7EOM''PD13%, LIC AND IPE1VATE PROPERTY AND • THE, EEPAI&kOV'SUM=r WALES AND`t?EB:COLLECTIOl% ,• OP THE COSTS•OP,SCCBtWORB WHEN DOVE; BY THE -X1TY-AS A S P E ClfAL,.:,A> M4T - ACAL`QST+`PROPt?RTT z„--.... THE CaTY-OPy,ST.'SAIIIS' PARK DOES'ORDAIN:-.S.rt,' .• r.• '•,T,' SECTION•-171e-'Zlie removal •et,,cer.-; talo noise:tiee'yb9n;curr1nto. services; and speclaL.asse eate,ior the -'east of such'. currant- services .fs. Resets-` after set fortIn„sball:/be.- as 'follows:` Section-, Q0.. ,De>bstelos..?bv term -our= servlce7 as; toed In , this, ordinance means'oae:er-more of the Mowing: -removal-of',dangerous, 1snow. ice,or.rubbish from public sido- walks: elimination tot_' -needs -from !public, or prirate,? and, re - 1 Robt1S'ectop �' '` 1411sLKafaace Stew-.. onlee1'524mad: `osmics Bemoval;lb7:OWner,e`:=o- - 1AI1•enow.'1eettand?rubbisb,, _1-- -'±; in public p sMewalkSbtisuehar• ste-a-mataer as�torendter-,the' use ;of ;the •sioewsur :..la.pemstrtaal unsafe. D ,berebyy ' - t"o, be :a pubic tufsance,v',,:. e` ;r JJ• The, Gunter,' a,nd•a of auy property:buttinsma`side; s � , 48 a1 public-nmsance- as ,defned -herein., • Section1:a3l ftiow:Qlese; mad' Raubbfah••i. Pain, --,0 --Bemor Unca itbe;:Dfseetur of oorrdinnaatess." of a av+ °as de , fined.In•Seetloa l aklau 'nay -forth with eauae tbet.saowter • rub./ MO' covsutauee.aaeb: xto' te• removed.•He shall keepAreeord show!; Mg tbet•total,scostrooft-sdeh'tramtovaL for eatti +such ,separaierlot for, tract of laa-a .suebl:tldewalk 'andI d, shall, de1Iv -auch;,informadon.to, the' City Manager. it•*-At+s•; ) r - 1 .+- Seaton s@3: :.:Aersafrt of-rSleej walks, —Du ' ofswner. OG The' owner; o4-aagy'..jw ,erty within the City :a A , btt!aldaw 1k shall keep the�,ta, repair and sate Ilse shalt be: mader� I 0tiefth standard ion'Werla .the office -of. Cleslt.z �'= Beetle: `4 atilt•�pafr•ofBldfwalbs- F Woo Dlrreeclor.of W+ ,cr bauib ortkod Wbordttate, t dtde- Aract walk-wbich:ta ,tmsatb tn,ateed of repalrs�be shat tbe;-fada to the CI�r Manager•Mso'b tato shall report ib Coundf•1 orderJhe sldevfali info !oral by contr ir InM�� � fot ea of s -aced shall dd1vett +le the Sinnager.,r-1',.$-,,....?..r:•r. �.- worm ," mina• IleaCity tlT;^.` $ AtdR whether'ttaalatattelaol-RdrAetaed by state If • i or : , owned totCgs -lnT a1,traet ofpabllcffend , Louts 12 metes are' el'ld ' tit be a nuisance. The. owner aud•the Deet. pant•ebaR_ababe`er.preyeot>.aoch •ntt- sance on such plupe ty- and ;on, food outside the. traveled south n� of Ithe* street or alley.. abatttag_tsn sum 7 snap, e. y , r, - lift.... •.ISR •`} f t.�a ....-.4-..... • n • A, r,' ••4:Ztl of Snot? 0,111 a Arc 1 Ono succenatvr weeks that It watt 27th April city of • It and tea, h week to and Including the 10 n id that tl,c following to a copy of the lower cane n.tAiech,rct o hate brctt •hr t, lie anti kind of type used In the publlca• .l O rd 2.Dance .oto 781 `to Prov •• :. f i to abcde:ghljkl to pq-e-ua yi W✓ Publlaher Thomas D •Vtlltam.s Notary Public. Hennepin County. Minn My Commission Expires June 16. 1962 perelrty r"- z r•�OLk1"�8 AND FOR• HEARING THEREON. - IT 1S FURTHER ORDERED that within four months from the date hereof all creditors of said Decedent the their claims to this Court Proofs till be heard and claims examined and adjusted before this Court on Tuesday.Septcraper p tgvat.10 o clock !QM; ;in at1i�� i1 Y In Mimic a pl}8,,,MitineSola.z• .0404180411 • These•'r;rdelsoltall b2 JIn Ire Edina Courier ond-eopir.O,Haailed o according( to law • _o WITNESS. the HON. MELVIN J PEIERSON. Judge of Rrobate Court this 18th day of April 1961. m�F(COURT SEAL) ROSE FOSSEEN 0w a ;who n o '6`e ,° e o a o • ar 0 er co - aCr ft o 4y© o 0 u L o 0 0 �O 0 .' • _ V Y , e -o • with ceute 'he arrow. Or' the rub blth constituting Butt nrdaauee `s• removed. He sent! keep a rourd w. tag the total coat of aaeh• removal far each such aoparale lot or tract of land abutting =et •aldewalk and shall deliver, such information to the City Manager. - Section '1 •tom. Repair of Side- walks — Duty of Owner. The owner of r any property within the City aftkW ,apublle,aldewalk shall keep tin aldew0D1 to Malt and safe use by yediarrtaat1i •n, yrs shall be made In aceor4a80e• v lb standard specifications mit sin the office �� the C Cir 0 Sidewalks— Duty et silty. Up= discovery by the ielor_Publk1P.atlt hs auth- orized alberdhmte.' ayaffi!caide• walk which,ia tmaafelottd fofoeed of repair,be shall report_ theAststa to the City-Mnw City -Manager tato In -)to n shall report them -to the. -City Coutts!]. The Council ,tberetman.,by, reisol:Ilan. may to ,causeofs :he Devitt) a pair FiQT tract ,to the order ,the a s(dewalf"to H r safe for;pedestriaas0,by by contract let -inn taw. Tile t ( record oeltbe' cost, for .each--u0cb -.,curate- of Iand--a shall delivers City Manager :et :v=J iti - tlan•-ifel;yy}-4Y# xOt7per. Any weeds. whether:Fnaed alffrinatte8sdeflned by state -last! or ar,traet upon oay�c fat d street:: ' alley Ac St Louis Paik.,toya �t 12 inches are 1sereby ,de cioi f a - to be a nuisance. The owner and the occu- pant shR sue sanceont property• and ;an land outside the traveled portion" of, the street or alley abutting.on such prop, city. Section 1:878. Reed 'l intisa- tlon—Nouse. On or before June 1 of each year. and at such other times as ordered by resolution of the cotm- cll. the City Clerk shall publish once o in the official newspaper a notice di- recting otrners.and occupants of_prop- erty with!n the Cyt to destroy all weeds declared by Section 1:833 to be a nuisance and stating that,S not so destroyed within ten days (10) after publication of - the notice• the weeds will be destroyed by thb-Direc- for of Public Works at the expense of the owner and 1f expense`tbereof be not paid prior to the following September =1st -the charge for such work -,Will be made•a_speciaLassess- toeat�,against the property. concerned., ' Section • 1:637. Weed , =mina- tica—City Removal. -If the owner occupant of. any property in the City, a falls-to-com y-,tcilh_the:notlee wtth- 1n ten days situ Its publication. the Director -of Public Works .may cut and . remove such weeds. He shall keep a record showing the total cost of such weed -removal for each such ° separate lot or tract of land and shall o deliver such information to the City Manager. Section 1:638. Personal :Liabili- ty. The owner of property for which a current service hu ,been per- . formed shall be personally liable for the cost of such service. As -soon as the current service has been earn• pleted and the cast thereof deter- mined, the Cttv Manager •shall pre- pare sipare a bili stating the amount due tor such current service and stating that if the same be not paid odorSep. 'ember 1st the same win be made a special assessment against the prop- erty concerned and shall mall ouch bill and notice to the owner and thereupon the amount shall be Im- mediately due and payable ,at the office of the City Treosueer., • Section 1 639. Assessment. On or before September 1st of cacti year. the clerk shall list the total =paid charges for each t,• -pe of current sear Ices against each separate lot or tract of land to which then tag tit. trlbutabte under this ordmanee. The Council may thea spread the charges nentnet property benefited as a sae- ciat assessment under Mhutexota Sta. lutes. Seelim an.10t and other per anent statutes fe. ecnlflcaUsm to the county audnrr and v1).r•ten for the fotlmuni 'car alone with eurrteit taxes :SECTION `. Separability. In gam any •ertlon of this ordinance IP 'Be)d arta4ld_1),) a court n' Comoerent ler _ ilii -.. ilkt, .0tce eel - . 0 0 r.° o- o v�� 4. ORDINANCE NO.. 731 `_ a : t : �,,., : AN O?O3NA.NC2 PROVIDING FOR THE REMOVAL OF SNOW, _I2E & RUBBISH FROft SIDEWALKS, THE ELIMINATION OF �.� ,?O'`! PUBLTC & PRIVATE PROs":RTY & THE REPAIR OF �: -t _: _ 1.7CULL CTICE (.F THE COSTS OF SUCH :1ORK WHEN ,l(*:' B1 CITY AS1 3P -.X1:1 ASSESSMENT AGAINST PROPERTY •r Int-ncl, by Date BENEFITED FA/.. c ; . ,-. )- t n2-13-61. V - ved Yes 7 Az i i 273_1961 _..ifa_r 1?, ._1.96.1 4.1 r