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Upon a specific finding by resolution of the city council of the fact that a public nuisance exists at a particular location, the city attorney shall:

A. Forthwith, but not later than five working days after passage of the resolution, commence legal proceedings under Civil Code Sections 3491, 3494 and 3496 and Code of Civil Procedure Section 731, by the filing of a civil action seeking the following relief:

1. An order that the subject matter identified by the city council in the resolution is obscene as defined in this chapter;

2. An order that each place named by the city council is a public nuisance and that the action taken by the city council to revoke the licenses issued to that place of business was lawful;

3. An injunction enjoining and restraining all persons maintaining the nuisance from possession or publicly exhibiting the obscene motion picture films, or from selling or possession for sale the obscene motion picture films or publications at any time in the future in the city and such other injunctive relief as the court may order;

4. An order that all positive prints of such obscene motion picture films and obscene publications or copies or reproductions thereof be forfeited as derivative contraband;

5. An accounting of all moneys paid as admission price to the exhibition or exhibitions of such obscene motion picture films and valuable consideration received for the sale of such obscene motion picture films or obscene publications from and after the time the person or persons maintaining the nuisance receive a copy of the resolution of the city council’s finding that a public nuisance exists, and a judgment that such moneys are derivative contraband and gain derived from a wrongful act under Civil Code Section 2224, and a public nuisance;

6. An order that all admission price moneys are valuable consideration received and enumerated in the court ordered accounting be declared to be derivative contraband, and forfeited as required by law;

7. Judgment for the city for all costs expended in abating the public nuisance, including investigative costs, court costs, reasonable attorney fees and such other expenses as are provided for in this chapter; and

8. All other relief as the court may deem proper.

B. File a notice of the pendency of the action in the office of the county recorder of the county pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure Section 409, giving the names of the parties, the object of the action, and a description of the property thereby affected. (Ord. 299 §8, 1984).