Every person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter has committed a code infraction and shall pay a penalty not to exceed $500.00.

Any person who violates the provisions of this chapter and permits weeds, noxious weeds, rubbish, debris, or decomposing animal or vegetable matter to accumulate or remain upon any real property owned or occupied by him or her in the City so that it shall become a fire hazard or cause or create an unsanitary or unsightly condition or become injurious or detrimental to the public health or welfare, or who permits weeds, noxious weeds, grass or other vegetation to reach a height in excess of one foot within an area of 20 feet of any existing building or a height of two feet in any other location, or who violates any other provision of PMC 9.90.040, shall, in addition to the other civil penalties provided for in this chapter, after being notified by the Code Enforcement Officer or his designee to remove the material, or correct the nuisance within a period of time specified in the notice as herein provided, shall have committed a code infraction and shall be punished by payment of a penalty not to exceed $500.00, and each day that such condition or nuisance or fire hazard or unsanitary or unsightly condition is maintained or takes place upon the premises shall constitute a separate code infraction under this chapter. Any owner or occupant of such property who refuses or fails for any reason to pay the amount billed to them for the City’s cleaning, leveling, removal, or destruction of the nuisance within 30 days from the billing date shall have committed a code infraction and shall be punished by payment of a civil penalty not to exceed $500.00. Any person, not being the owner or occupant of such property, who places or causes to be placed rubbish or debris upon any real property in the City in violation of the provisions of this chapter, shall be guilty of a code infraction and shall be punished by a civil penalty in an amount not to exceed $500.00 and the placing or causing to be placed of each article of rubbish or debris shall constitute a separate code infraction under this chapter. [Ord. 4304, 2016; Ord. 2450 § 2, 1983; Ord. 1894 § 1, 1977; Code 1970 § 9.60.080; Code 1954 § 10-4.32.]