Board of Estimate & Contract:
RESOLVED, that an ordinance adopted by the City Council on May 14, 2025, and signed by the Mayor on May 15, 2025, authorizing the Amendment of Article IX, Section 105-B, entitled "Abatement of Nuisance" of the Code of the City of Mount Vernon; be, and the same is hereby approved.
City Council:
AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE AMENDMENT OF
ARTICLE IX, SECTION 105-B, ENTITLED "ABATEMENT OF
NUISANCE" OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MOUNT VERNON
Whereas, by letter dated April 17, 2025, the Commissioner of the Department of Public Works has requested legislation authorizing Amendment to Article IX - The Department of Public Works; ? 105-B- Abatement of Nuisance of the City of Mount Vernon Municipal Code; and
The City of Mount Vernon, in the City Council convened, does hereby ordain and enact:
Section 1. Section 105-B of Chapter IX of the Code of the City of Mount Vernon, entitled "Abatement of Nuisance," is hereby amended as follows:
Article IX. -Department of Public Works
? 105-B. Abatement of Nuisance.
? 105-B- Abatement of Nuisance
[Added by L.L. No. 2-1929; amended by L.L. No. 3-1942; L.L. No. 2-1962; L.L. No. 5-1962; L.L. No. 3-1964; L.L. No. 2-1970; L.L. No. 1-1972; L.L. No. 7-1980[1]; L.L. No. 1-1981; L.L. No. 1-1986; 8-9-2023]
The Commissioner of Public Works shall have the power to enter upon property, both public and private, and to remove accumulations of rubbish and deleterious matter therefrom, to fill in depressions where water is likely to gather and stagnate, and to abate any other conditions creating or tending to create a condition detrimental to the health, safety and general welfare of the immediate neighborhood or the public at large. Where the owner of property upon which any accumulations of rubbish and deleterious matter or depression or condition detrimental to health, safety and general welfare exists [shall] fails to abate, remove or fill in the same within [five days] ...
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