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22 . The use/operation of skateboards or roller skates including in-line skates on City sidewalks, walkways , driveways, parking lots or other areas frequented by by pedestrians . Section 5. Duties of city officers. The police department shall enforce the provisions of this ordinance relating to nuisances affecting public safety and other nuisances. Such officers, shall have the power to inspect private premises and take all reasonable precautions to prevent the commission and maintenance of public nuisances . Section 6 . Abatement . Whenever the officer charged with enforcement determines that a public nuisance is being maintained or exists on premises in the city, the officer shall notify in writing the owner or occupant of the premises of such fact and order that such nuisance be terminated and abated. The notice shall be served in person or by certified or registered mail . If the premises are not occupied and the owner is unknown, the notice may be served by posting it on the premises . The notice shall specify the steps to be taken to abate the nuisance and the time , not exceeding 30 days, within which the nuisance is to be abated. If the notice is not complied with within the time specified, the enforcing officer shall report that fact forthwith to the council . Thereafter the council may, after notice to the owner or occupant has had an opportunity to be heard, provide for abating the nuisance by the city. The notice shall be served in the same manner as notice by the enforcing officer is served and shall be given at least ten (10 ) days before the date stated in the notice when the council will consider the matter . If notice is given by posting, at least thirty ( 30 ) days shall elapse between the day of posting and the hearing. Section 7 . Recovery of cost . Subdivision i . Personal Liability. The owner of premises on which a nuisance has been abated by the city shall be personally liable for the cost to the city of the abatement , including administrative costs . As soon as the work has been completed and the cost determined, the city clerk shall prepare a bill for the cost and mail it to the owner. Thereupon the amount shall be immediately due and payable at the office of the city clerk. Subdivision 2 . Assessment. If the nuisance is a public health or safety hazard on private property, the growth of weeds on private property or outside the traveled portion of streets, or unsound or insect-infected trees , the clerk shall , on or before September i next following abatement of the nuisance, list the total unpaid charges along with all other such charges as well as other charges for current services to be assessed under Minnesota Statutes, Section 429 . 101 against each separate lot or parcel to which the charges are attributable. The council may then spread the charges against such property under that statute and other pertinent statutes for certification to the county auditor and