Ordinance 233-73 - Laserfiche WebLink

• • ORDINANCE NO. 2 ' I _ 7 3 AN ORDINANCE regulating unoccupied 1 automobile service stations. 2 3 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF EVERETT as follows: 4 5 Section 1: Unoccupied Service Stations a Public Nuisance 6 Whenever a service station ceases to be open for business 7 as a service station and is substantially unoccupied for a continuous 8 period of one (1) year or more, such non-operating and 9 unoccupied service station is hereby declared a public nuisance. 10 Section 2: Definition of Service Station 11 The term "service station" as used herein shall mean any 12 premises used for the retail sale of motor vehicle fuel, minor accessories 13 14 and services excluding minor and major automobile repair, for delivery 15 into the consuming vehicle on the premises . 16 Section 3: Occupancy of Premises 17 Occupancy of the premises for less than thirty (30) days shall not be 18 deemed to interrupt the one (1) year vacancy unless such occupancy is 19 accomplished by actual operation of an automobile service station with normal 20 and adequate inventories of motor vehicle fuel. 21 Section 4: Notice to Owner 22 23 The Director of Community Development, or his authorized agent, upon 24 discovering a service station substantially unoccupied as described above for a 25 continuous period of one (1) year or more shall give to the owner of such 26 service station written notice stating that the service station at the specified 27 location has been unoccupied for a continuous period of one (1) year 28 and thus constitutes a public nuisance. Such notice shall specify that 29 within 90 days from the date of this notice, unless otherwise stipulated by the 30 31 Director of Community Development, the service station shall either resume 32