§ 14-75. Intent and purpose.

(a)

A.R.S. § 11-251(17) allows the county board of supervisors to adopt provisions necessary to preserve the health of the county.

(b)

The director of the county department of public health must enforce and observe the rules of the director of the state department of health services, the director of the department of environmental quality and the local board of health, county rules and regulations concerning health, and laws of the state pertaining to the preservation of public health and protection of the environment in accordance with A.R.S. §§ 36-186(5) and 36-602.

(c)

There is a need to assess the costs of removal or abatement of nuisances, sources of filth or causes of sickness upon the land from which the nuisances, sources of filth or causes of sickness were removed or abated.

(d)

A.R.S. § 36-602(B) gives authority to a city or county to prescribe by sanitary ordinance or regulation a procedure for making the actual cost of this removal or abatement or nuisances, sources of filth or causes of sickness, including the actual costs of any additional inspection and other incidental costs in connection with the removal or abatement, an assessment on the lots and tracts of land on which the nuisance, source of filth or cause of sickness was abated or removed.

( Ord. No. 2006-03 , 11-5-2007)