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An Ordinance to Create Subsection 18.09(10) of the West Allis Revised Municipal Code Relating to the Prohibition and Penalties of Abandoned Dwellings.
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The Common Council of the City of West Allis do ordain as follows:
PART I. Subsection 18.09(10) of the Revised Municipal Code of the City of West Allis is hereby created to read:
18.09 NUISANCE ABANDONED DWELLINGS.
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(10) Prohibition and Penalties. No person shall remove, alter, deface, damage, or tamper with any items, including signs, locks, boards, or any other materials, used by a city building inspector or his or her designee to post or secure any nuisance abandoned property. Any person violating this subsection shall be required to forfeit not less than five hundred dollars ($500.00) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1000.00). For a second or subsequent violation, the person shall be required to forfeit not less than one thousand dollars ($1000.00) nor more than two thousand dollars ($2000.00). The person shall be required to pay the costs of prosecution. In default of payment thereof, the person shall be imprisoned in the Milwaukee County House of Correction until such forfeiture and costs are paid, but not more than the number of days set forth in sec. 800.095(4) of the Wisconsin Statutes, or by suspension of the defendant's operating privilege, pursuant to Secs. 343.30 and 345.47 of the Wisconsin Statutes. Each and every day that an offense occurs or continues constitutes a separate offense.
PART II. All ordinances or parts of ordinances contravening the provisions of this ordinance are hereby amended.
PART III. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication.
ATTO-Create Subs 18.09(10)-Proh&Pen AbanDwel