Code officer orders cleanup and secondary containment for grease receptacles at Rosebud properties

Code Enforcement presented two neighboring cases involving grease receptacles and exterior debris at business properties on Northeast 2nd Avenue, and the magistrate ordered corrective measures and a 30-day compliance deadline.

Officer Reggie Williams told the magistrate exhibits showed a grease receptacle without required secondary containment and exterior storage items such as cones, mop buckets and a metal cylinder present during reinspections. "The containment unit needs to be cleaned, and a secondary containment unit needs to be part of that," Williams said. The city requested 20 days, but the magistrate standardized the remedy period to 30 days to allow ordering and installation of secondary containment.

The magistrate found the properties in violation of maintenance-of-building code and ordered 30 days to come into compliance or a daily fine of up to $100 may issue. The order requires removal of loose debris, cleaning around the grease receptacle and installation of the secondary containment unit.