TO: Mayor and City Council Members
FROM: Beth Lindauer, Community Development Director
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Second Reading and Adoption of Ordinance No. 1100 Amending Chapter 15 (Nuisances) of the Red Bluff Municipal Code by Adding Article II Establishing Judicial Receivership Proceedings for Chronic Nuisance Properties
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RECOMMENDED COUNCIL ACTION:
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Waive the second reading except by title and adopt Ordinance No. 1100 amending Chapter 15 (Nuisances) of the Red Bluff Municipal Code.
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SUMMARY:
California Health and Safety Code Section 17980.7 authorizes local agencies to petition the Superior Court to appoint a judicial receiver to rehabilitate or abate qualifying substandard properties when traditional enforcement methods have proven ineffective. The proposed ordinance establishes a local framework for considering this extraordinary enforcement remedy while preserving the City's discretion to pursue receivership only when warranted.
PREVIOUS COUNCIL ACTION:
On August 18, 2026, the City Council conducted a public hearing and introduced and waived the first reading of Ordinance No. 1100.
DISCUSSION:
The proposed ordinance establishes procedures for the City to consider judicial receivership as an enforcement tool for chronic nuisance properties when reasonable efforts to obtain voluntary compliance and other available administrative remedies have failed or proven ineffective.
The ordinance is intended to supplement, rather than replace, the City's existing administrative, civil, and criminal enforcement remedies. It does not expand the authority granted to the City under state law or create a mandatory duty for the City to pursue receivership in any particular case.
CITY FISCAL IMPACT:
Adoption of the ordinance will have no immediate fiscal impact.
ATTACHMENTS:
ARTICLE II DRAFT RBMC – ORD 1100
CITY COUNCIL ORDINANCE NO. 1100
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RED BLUFF
AMENDING CHAPTER 15 (NUISANCES) OF THE R...
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