A. If such abatement is not abated as ordered with the abatement period, the city clerk shall cause the same to be abated by city employees or private contract. The city clerk or the clerk's representative is expressly authorized to enter upon said property for such purposes. The city clerk or the clerk's representative is authorized to remove from the premises and dispose of or destroy such property as is necessary and take such other actions as required to fulfill the purposes of the abatement order. The cost, including incidental expenses of abating the nuisance shall be billed to the owner and shall become due and payable thirty days thereafter. The term “incidental expenses” means and includes, but is not limited to, personnel costs, both direct and indirect, including attorney's fees for the prevailing party if the city should request attorney's fees at the initiation of the action; costs incurred in documenting the nuisance; the actual expenses and costs of the city in preparation of notices, specifications and contracts, and in inspecting the work; and the cost of printing and mailing required hereunder.

B. A person shall not obstruct, impede, or interfere with the city clerk or his representative, or with any person who owns, or holds any interest or estate in any property in the performance of any necessary act, preliminary to or incidental to, carrying out an abatement order issued pursuant to Sections 8.08.090 and 8.08.110. (Ord. 02-02, 2002; Ord. 89-7 (part), 1989; Ord. 4-86 § 15, 1986)