Chapter 8.20
NUISANCES
Sections:
8.20.020 Nuisances on unoccupied lots--Abatement-Violation--Penalty.
8.20.010 Defined.
Anything which is injurious to health, or is indecent or offensive to the senses, or an obstruction to the free use of property, so as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property, or unlawfully obstructs the free passage or use, in the customary manner, of any navigable lake, or river, bay, stream, canal, or basin, or any public park owned or operated by the town, square, street, alley or public highway located in the town is a nuisance. (Ord. 23 (part), 1967)
8.20.020 Nuisances on unoccupied lots--Abatement-Violation--Penalty.
In case any nuisance shall be in, about or upon any unoccupied lot or lots within the town, or tenement or other structure thereon, when the owner is absent from the town, or is a nonresident thereof, or is unknown to the officer, or whom the officers cannot find, the chief of police or town engineer may cause such nuisance to be revoked or abated, which shall be done at the expense of the owner. If suit for recovery of costs for abating such nuisance be not brought against such owner of the property, the council may assess such costs to such property and such costs shall be collected as other taxes are collected. (Ord. 152 (part), 1993; Ord. 137 §3, 1989; Ord. 25, 1967)
8.20.030 Violation--Penalty.
Violation of this chapter is a municipal infraction subject to the provisions of Sections 7-1-4150 through 7-1-4152, MCA. (Ord. 207 §§22, 45, 2000)