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Utica council updates public-nuisance code and adopts city-run graffiti removal language
Summary
The council voted to adopt an updated public-nuisance ordinance that broadens enforcement tools and approved a city-run graffiti-notification and removal program with a nonexclusive-remedies clause added by amendment.
Utica — The Utica Common Council on Sept. 3 advanced two pieces of legislation intended to broaden the city’s enforcement tools for property neglect, illegal dumping, graffiti and other public-nuisance issues.
Council members discussed and then adopted a comprehensive update to the city’s public-nuisance code, described in the meeting as an effort to align enforcement with modern challenges including drug activity, excessive noise, property neglect and illegal dumping. The update amends the municipal code’s…
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