Courtenay By-law 2804, s. 3(b) — Prevention of Public Nuisances Bylaw

An owner or occupier of real property shall forthwith, upon receipt of notice given pursuant to this bylaw, remove all accumulation of filth, discarded materials, rubbish or graffiti.

(c)

Where an owner or occupier of real property fails to comply with a requirement for removal referred to in subsection

• (b) above, the City by its employees or other persons, at reasonable times and in a reasonable manner, shall enter on the property and effect the removal at the expense of the person who has failed to comply, and that where a person at whose expense removal is carried out does not pay the cost of removal on or before December 31 in the year that the removal was done, the cost shall be added to and form part of the taxes payable on the property as taxes in arrears.
• (d) It shall be a good and sufficient defence to any prosecution commenced for violations of paragraph 3(a) hereof, for an owner or occupier of any commercial real property to prove that the storage of materials or the accumulation and storage of unroadworthy motor vehicles or parts thereof, is an essential part of a legally licensed business carried on at that real property.