§ 5-44. Hazardous materials or substances incidents, liability for costs.

(a)

The incident commander or fire chief is hereby duly authorized to take all reasonable measures to respond to, limit, contain, control, summarily abate, or mitigate the hazardous materials or substances incidents. Any party or parties who creates or causes a hazardous materials or substances incident shall be liable to the city for the payment of all costs as defined above incurred in the response to, limiting, containing, controlling, abating, mitigating or any necessary monitoring of such an incident.

(b)

The city will pursue all available remedies at law including but not limited to the penalties contained in this article, lis pendens or levy in the nature of tax, against any and all party or parties, jointly and severally, who creates or causes any hazardous material or substances incident.

(Ord. No. 2019-16 , § 3, 4-8-19)