(1) Every person who maintains or commits any public nuisance, the punishment of which is not otherwise prescribed, or who willfully omits to perform any legal duty relating to the removal of a public nuisance is guilty of a class “B” misdemeanor.

(2) The City may initiate legal action, civil or criminal, to remove, abate and/or secure any condition or act constituting a public nuisance, as herein defined in Section 76-10-803, Utah Code Annotated 1953 as amended.

(3) In addition to other penalties imposed for the violation of this Section, irrespective of any civil or criminal action initiated by the City, any person who commits any of the acts enumerated in Sections 76-10-803 or 76-10-804, Utah Code Annotated 1953 as amended, shall be liable for all expenses, including, but not limited to, those incurred by the City in protecting the public or in investigating, removing, abating and/or securing the condition arising from said acts. Said expenses shall include interest at the current legal rate, accumulated on the amount expended by the City to remove, abate and/or secure said condition. Such interest shall begin to accrue 30 days after the person committing said acts is informed in writing by the City of the expenses for which he is liable.