City of Pittsburgh - File #: 2018-0388

• File #: 2018-0388
• Version: 3
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed Finally
• File created: 4/16/2018
• In control: Committee on Public Safety Services
• On agenda: 10/24/2018
• Final action: 10/30/2018
• Enactment date: 10/30/2018
• Enactment #: 41
• Effective date: 11/9/2018
• Title: Ordinance amending the Pittsburgh City Code, Title Six, Conduct, Article VII - Disruptive Properties, Chapter 670. - Disruptive Property Abatement, by repealing Chapter 670 in its entirety and replacing it with a new Chapter 670.
• Sponsors: Theresa Kail-Smith, Darlene M. Harris

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
11/9/2018	3	Mayor	Signed by the Mayor
10/30/2018	2	City Council	AMENDED	Pass
10/30/2018	2	City Council	Passed Finally, As Amended	Pass
10/24/2018	2	Standing Committee	Affirmatively Recommended as Amended	Pass
10/24/2018	2	Standing Committee	AMENDED	Pass
10/17/2018	1	Standing Committee	Held in Committee	Pass
10/3/2018	1	Standing Committee	Held in Committee	Pass
9/19/2018	1	Standing Committee	Held in Committee	Pass
9/12/2018	1	Standing Committee	Held in Committee	Pass
9/5/2018	1	Standing Committee	Held in Committee	Pass
8/29/2018	1	Standing Committee	Held in Committee	Pass
6/27/2018	1	Standing Committee	Held in Committee	Pass
5/30/2018	1	Standing Committee	Held in Committee	Pass
5/23/2018	1	Standing Committee	Held in Committee	Pass
5/16/2018	1	Standing Committee	Held in Committee
5/9/2018	1	Standing Committee	Held in Committee	Pass
5/2/2018	1	Standing Committee	Held in Committee	Pass
4/25/2018	1	Standing Committee	Held in Committee	Pass
4/17/2018	1	City Council	Read and referred

Title
Ordinance amending the Pittsburgh City Code, Title Six, Conduct, Article VII - Disruptive Properties, Chapter 670. - Disruptive Property Abatement, by repealing Chapter 670 in its entirety and replacing it with a new Chapter 670.

Body
The Council of the City of Pittsburgh hereby enact as follows:

Section 1.

TITLE SIX: - CONDUCT
ARTICLE VII: - DISRUPTIVE PROPERTIES
CHAPTER 670. - DISRUPTIVE PROPERTY ABATEMENT [5]

? 670.01 - PURPOSE.
City Council hereby finds that Disruptive Properties as set forth herein place a substantially unacceptable threat to and burden upon the common health, safety and welfare of the residents of the City of Pittsburgh. To this end, City Council hereby authorizes and directs the Director of Public Safety, or his/her designee ("Director") as provided in the following sections, to charge the cost of law enforcement/public safety services incurred by responding to Disruptive Properties against the corresponding Property Owner in order to deter repeated violations of federal, state and/or local law or a Serious Offenses as set forth herein, and to pursue misdemeanor charges against the Owner and/or Tenant/Occupant of a Disruptive Property when Disruptive Activity (as defined herein) remains unabated per Section 670.06 of this Chapter. Nothing in this Chapter is intended to deter individuals within the City from requesting public safety services when they are in legitimate need of such.
(Ord. No. 33-2007, ? 2, eff. 1-15-07)
? 670.02 - DEFINITIONS.
(a) Director - Director of Public Safety, or his/her designee
(b) Property - commercial or residential real estate, including rental Property. "Rental Property" as set forth herein may be either an individual rental unit of a Property or the entire Property that contains multiple rental units. For purposes of enforcement hereunder, three (3) or more separate citations, summons and/or arrests for Disruptive Activity, or a single Serious Offense as defined herein, involving the same r...