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RESOLUTION NO. 67-2015 A RESOLUTION OF THE :BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS F THE, CITY OF St3iJTH BEND, INDIANA, ADJUSTING THE FEES RELATED TO ABATING NUISANCES AND REMOVING VEGETATION PURSUANT TO INDIANA CODE 3b -7-9 AND 36 -Tµ 10;1:AND! SOUT>EI BEl MUlTI�CJrPAL CODE CHAPTER Ib; ARTICLE WHEREAS, the Board of Public Works ("Board') has authority to determine the costs for performance of work required by orders issued under the Unsafe wilding Law, 36- '7 -9 -1, et al,., including orders to remove trash, debris, fire hazardous material, or a public health hazard in and ab out. an unsafe premises; and WHEREAS, the Board also has authority to abate nuisances described in South .Bend Municipal Code Chapter 16, Article 8, Section 16 -53; and WHEREAS, the Indiana Code provision for removal of weeds and rank vegetation, Indiana Code 3.6 -7. 10,1 -1, et seq., allows municipalities to require property owners to remove weeds and other rank vegetation, and sets forth procedures for giving notice to property owners and removing weeds' and rank vegetation at the owner's expense; and WHEREAS, the Department of Code Enforcement or. an entity acting on its behalf may after giving notice to the owner, enter property and remove weeds and .rank vegetation at the owner's expense, pursuant to South Bend Municipal Code Chapter 16, Article 8, Section 16. -59; and WHEREAS, the Board has the expertise to determine the costs of abating nuisances such as trash, debris, fre hazardous material and public health hazards, and or removing weeds .and rank vegetation, including the cost ofproviding notice; use of equipment and labor, and .administrative costs; and WHEREAS, the Board determines that the fees imposed for nuisance abatement and removal of weeds and rank vegetation should be adjusted from the 2008 schedule to reflect the current cost the City of South Bend incurs providing such services. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, AS FOLLOWS: Section I. That the Board of Public Works hereby sets forth fees for services in abating public nuisances such as trash, debris, fire hazardous material, or a public health hazard, and of removing weeds and rank vegetation from real property. .Section II. The owner, occupant or person in control of the property upon which the public nuisance or rank vegetation exists in violation of South Bend Municipal Code Chapter 16, Article 8., as it may be amended from time to time, shall be charged fees for the cost of equipment, -services and labor incurred by the City in abatement of the nuisance or removal of vegetation, The following fees shall be charged: