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DES:djm 11/07/89 (008/#8) <br />available to determine ownership. If such a request for <br />hearing is not received within said ten (10) days after <br />mailing of the notice of intention to abate and remove, the <br />city shall have the authority to abate and remove the <br />vehicle or parts thereof as a public nuisance without <br />holding a public hearing. <br />The hearing officer shall hear all facts and testimony <br />he or she deems pertinent to the determination on the <br />question of abatement and removal of the vehicle or parts <br />thereof. In conducting the hearing the hearing officer <br />shall not be limited by the technical rules of evidence. <br />The owner of the land may appear in person at the hearing or <br />present a sworn written statement prior to the hearing <br />containing a denial of responsibility for the presence of <br />the vehicle on the land with reasons in support thereof. <br />The hearing officer may impose such conditions and take <br />such other action as he or she deems appropriate under the <br />circumstances to carry out the purpose of this chapter. The <br />hearing officer may delay the time for removal of the <br />vehicle or parts thereof if, in the hearing officer's <br />opinion, the circumstances justify it. At the conclusion of <br />the public hearing, the hearing officer may find that a <br />vehicle or parts thereof has, or have, been abandoned, <br />wrecked, dismantled, or is, or are, inoperative on private <br />or public property and order the same removed from the <br />property as a public nuisance and disposed of as hereinafter <br />provided and determine the amount of administrative costs <br />2 <br />2006 <br />