City of Pittsburgh - File #: 2007-1887

• File #: 2007-1887
• Version: 2
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed Finally
• File created: 10/30/2007
• In control: Committee on Public Safety Services
• Final action: 12/27/2007
• Enactment date: 12/27/2007
• Enactment #: 33
• Effective date: 1/8/2008
• Title: Ordinance amending the Pittsburgh Code, by repealing TITLE 6: CONDUCT, ARTICLE VII: NUISANCE PROPERTIES, CHAPTER 670: NUISANCE PROPERTIES-ABATEMENT, and adding both TITLE 6: CONDUCT, ARTICLE VII DISRUPTIVE PROPERTIES, CHAPTER 670: DISRUPTIVE PROPERTY ABATEMENT and TITLE 6: CONDUCT, ARTICLE VII DISRUPTIVE PROPERTIES, CHAPTER 670A: DISRUPTIVE PROPERTY APPEALS BOARD.
• Sponsors: Dan Deasy, Darlene M. Harris, Len Bodack, Jim Motznik
• Indexes: PGH. CODE ORDINANCES TITLE 06 - CONDUCT

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
1/9/2008	2	Mayor	Signed by the Mayor
12/27/2007	2	City Council	Passed Finally	Pass
12/18/2007	2	Committee on Public Safety Services	Affirmatively Recommended as Amended	Pass
12/18/2007	1	Committee on Public Safety Services	AMENDED BY SUBSTITUTE	Pass
12/12/2007	1	Committee on Public Safety Services	Held in Committee	Pass
12/5/2007	1	Committee on Public Safety Services	Held in Committee	Pass
12/3/2007	1	Committee on Hearings	Public Hearing Held
11/5/2007	1	Committee on Public Safety Services	Held for Cablecast Public Hearing	Pass
10/30/2007	1	City Council	Read and referred

Presenter
Presented by Mr. Bodack

Title
Ordinance amending the Pittsburgh Code, by repealing TITLE 6: CONDUCT, ARTICLE VII: NUISANCE PROPERTIES, CHAPTER 670: NUISANCE PROPERTIES-ABATEMENT, and adding both TITLE 6: CONDUCT, ARTICLE VII DISRUPTIVE PROPERTIES, CHAPTER 670: DISRUPTIVE PROPERTY ABATEMENT and TITLE 6: CONDUCT, ARTICLE VII DISRUPTIVE PROPERTIES, CHAPTER 670A: DISRUPTIVE PROPERTY APPEALS BOARD.

Body
WHEREAS, certain activities that are violations of state and local for which citations, summons and/or arrests are repeatedly made at the same properties adversely affect the common health, safety and welfare of the citizens of the City of Pittsburgh; and

WHEREAS, properties that generate repeated calls for public safety service because of activities that are violations of the law place an undue and inappropriate financial burden on the taxpayers of the City, and an undue burden on the City's public safety resources; and

WHEREAS, such repeated citations, summons and/or arrests interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life and property for the neighbors of the properties at which those citations, summons and/or arrests recur, and lead to the deterioration of neighborhoods as responsible residents move out of neighborhoods where such activities recur; and

WHEREAS, nothing in this Ordinance is intended to deter individuals within the City from requesting public safety services when they are in legitimate need of such.


Be it resolved by the Council of the City of Pittsburgh as follows:

Section 1. The Pittsburgh Code is hereby amended by repealing TITLE 6: CONDUCT; ARTICLE VII: NUISANCE PROPERTIES; CHAPTER 670: NUISANCE PROPERTIES-ABATEMENT.

Section 2. The Pittsburgh Code is hereby supplemented by addition of the following Chapter.

TITLE 6: CONDUCT; ARTICLE VII DISRUPTIVE PROPERTIES;
CHAPTER 670. DISRUPTIVE PROPERTY ABATEMENT

670.01 PURPOSE

City Council hereby finds that Disruptive Properties place a substantial unac...