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CONSIDERATION OF ORDINANCE NO. O-1314-14 UPON SECOND AND FINAL READING: AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, AMENDING ARTICLE II, CHAPTER 2 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF NORMAN BY AMENDING SECTIONS 2-201 WHICH CHAPTERS OF CODE MAY BE ENFORCED BY THE PLANNING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT AND 2-204 AMENDING THE LENGTH OF TIME A PROPERTY MUST BE BOARDED AND SECURED PRIOR TO REMOVAL; AMENDING ARTICLE IV, CHAPTER 5 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF NORMAN BY ADDING REGULATIONS FOR FALLOUT AND TORNADO SHELTERS IN FRONT YARDS; AMENDING ARTICLE II, CHAPTER 10 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF NORMAN BY AMENDING SECTIONS 10-201, 10-202, 10-203, 10-204 AND 10-209 TO ALLOW ABATEMENT OF EASEMENT OBSTRUCTIONS; TO ALLOW POSTING REMOVAL NOTICES ON ABANDONED OR INOPERABLE VEHICLES; TO PROVIDE A DEFINITION FOR TRASH; TO ADD APPLIANCES AS A CATEGORY OF HEALTH NUISANCES; AND TO AMEND REQUIREMENTS FOR MOWING OF WEEDS IN UNPLATTED AREAS; AMENDING ARTICLE XIV, CHAPTER 13 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF NORMAN BY AMENDING SECTIONS 13-1407 AND 13-1410 TO UPDATE LICENSING REQUIREMENTS FOR MOBILE HOME PARKS; AND PROVIDING FOR THE SEVERABILITY THEREOF.
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BACKGROUND: The Planning and Community Development Department has prepared a number of Code amendments that will clarify areas of confusion in the Code. These amendments are clean-up items that pertain to Code Enforcement.
DISCUSSION: The changes to Chapters 2, 5, 10, and 13 are itemized below.
CHAPTER 2
The proposed amendment to Chapter 2, Section 201, updates the actual chapters currently being enforced by Code Compliance Inspectors. They include the deletion of Chapter 11 which was deleted in January, 2005 by City Council. The chapters added include Chapter 13 (Licenses and Occupations) that include inspections of Mobile Homes and Trailer Parks, Rooming & Boarding Houses and Hotels, Salvage Yards, Impoundment Yards, etc. that the Code Compliance Inspectors have been inspecting for many years; Chap...
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