Salinas Municipal Code § 16-1 Definitions

For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:

Employ. Retain, hire or engage.

Health Officer. The health officer of the county of Monterey, having the usual powers and duties of a local health officer under the general health laws of the state and the Charter, this code and ordinances of the city.

Owner. Agent, manager, proprietor, lessee, person copartnership, company, association, firm or corporation, or prospective owner or agent, business or establishment.

Owning. Controlling, leasing, acting as agent for, conducting, operating, managing, maintaining, or occupying.

(Ord. No. 283 (NCS), Art. 2, § 1.)

This chapter shall constitute the sanitary code of the city, and may be cited as such. The sanitary code contemplates the general supervision of all matters not otherwise provided for by law pertaining to the sanitary conditions of the city and the public institutions thereof, the disinfection and sanitary cleaning of all public and private places, and the abatement of all nuisances prejudicial to the health of the citizens or any of them, and for the prevention of the development and spread of contagious and infectious disease.

(Ord. No. 283 (NCS), Art. 1, § 1.)

The health officer shall notify the owners of any property maintaining a nuisance contrary to the provisions of this chapter to remove and abate such nuisance within ten days owner or owners to remove or abate the same, the health officer shall forthwith remove and abate such nuisance.

(Ord. No. 1029 (NCS), § 1.)

* For state law as to the power of cities to summarily abate nuisances, see Gov. C., § 38773.

The total cost of any abatement of premises pursuant to the terms of this chapter shall be and constitute a lien upon the real property upon which the nuisance abated was located, and the director of finance shall enter such cost upon the assessment roll under an appropriate head, to be collected at the same time and in the same manner as ordinary municipal taxes are collected, and shall be subject to the same penalties and the same procedure under foreclosure for sale and in case of delinquency as provided for in ordinary municipal taxes.

(Ord. No. 1029 (NCS), § 1.)