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An Ordinance to Create Section 18.002, Repeal and Recreate Section 18.03(2), Amend Section 18.04(1), Create Section 18.04(6), and Amend Section 18.05 of the West Allis Revised Municipal Code Relating to the Designation of and Recovery of Costs for a Chronic Nuisance Premises
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The Common Council of the City of West Allis do ordain as follows:
PART I. 18.002 of the West Allis Revised Municipal Code is hereby created to read:
18.002 LEGISLATIVE DECLARATION.
The Common Council finds that any premises that has generated three (3) or more calls for service for nuisance activities within a 60-day period has received more than the level of general and adequate service and has placed an undue and inappropriate burden on the taxpayers of the City. The Common Council therefore directs the Police Chief, Fire Chief, Health Commissioner, Forester, Weed Commissioner, Building Inspector, the Director of Public Works, and the City Attorney or their designees, as provided in this section, to charge the owners of such premises the costs associated with abating the violations at the premises at which nuisance activities chronically occur.
PART II. 18.03(2) of the Revised Municipal Code of the City of West Allis is hereby repealed and recreated to read:
18.03(2) Nuisances Affecting Morals and Decency.
(a) For the purposes of this section: "Nuisance activity" means any of the following activities, behaviors or conduct whenever engaged in by premises owners, operators, occupants or persons associated with the premises:
(1) Disorderly Houses. All disorderly houses, gambling houses, and building or structures kept or resorted to for the purpose of gambling, or any drug or criminal gang houses as defined in
§ 823.113, (1) and (1)(b) Wis. Stats., and all buildings or structures where the sale, manufacture, or delivery of drug paraphernalia as defined in § 961.571(1)(a), Wis. Stats. occurs.
(2) Gambling Devices. The keeping of gambling devic...
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