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Committee approves city code changes to centralize nuisance abatement cost recovery
Summary
The committee reviewed a proposed municipal code amendment to consolidate nuisance-abatement cost-recovery authority across departments and moved the item for passage after law department staff described how the ordinance responds to an Ohio court decision and clarifies recovery for costs such as animal rabies testing.
The Public Safety and Governance Committee reviewed a proposed amendment to the municipal code that would centralize and clarify the city’s ability to recover costs when it abates nuisances.
City Law representative Mr. Manning told the committee the ordinance is designed to respond to an Ohio court ruling that affects nuisance preemption and to create consistent cost-recovery provisions across departments. Manning said current cost-recovery language is scattered among building, fire and health codes; the ordinance would create a single, uniform mechanism so the city can collect expenses related to enforcement…
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