Legal Documents of Gatlinburg

Upon failure of any owner of property or person having control of same within the limits of the city to cut or have cut such obnoxious growths or weeds or other vegetation or to remove or have removed such accumulations of vegetation, trash, rubbish and refuse as described in § 13-108, it shall be the duty of the city manager, acting through his/her designated agent, to serve a notice on the owner, lessee, occupant or person having control of such property ordering said person or persons to cut or have cut such obnoxious weeds and/or to remove or have removed such accumulations of trash, rubbish or refuse within ten (10) days of the service of such notice. Such notice may be served by:

1. Personally serving the same on the owner, lessee, occupant, or person having control of such property; or
2. By mailing the same to the last known address of such owner, lessee, occupant, or person having control of such property by certified mail; or
3. By posting the same on the property on which such condition or conditions exist. Service of notice by any of the above methods shall be due notice within the meaning of this chapter, provided however, that no owner not in actual possession shall be liable to the penalty imposed by § 13-113 unless there shall be personal service of such notice upon him, or such notice mailed to him by certified mail as aforesaid. (1976 Code, § 8-416, as replaced by Ord. #2299, Sept. 2003)