§ 14-449. Purpose.  


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  • The city has a compelling interest in preventing real properties located within the city from being public nuisances, thereby negatively affecting the quality of life of the residents of the city. The city intends to promote, protect, and improve the health, safety and welfare of the city's residents by creating a nuisance abatement board with the authority to impose administrative fines and other noncriminal penalties in order to provide an equitable, expeditious, effective and inexpensive method of abating nuisances. It is the intent of this article to provide the city with an additional and supplemental means to abating public nuisances. Nothing contained herein shall preclude the city from abating nuisances under F.S. § 60.05 or as otherwise provided by law.

(Ord. No. 2009-14-186, § 2, 6-24-2009)