California Health and Safety Code ARTICLE 3 - Abatement

• Section 11570.
  Every building or place used for the purpose of unlawfully selling, serving, storing, keeping, manufacturing, or giving away any controlled substance, precursor, or analog specified...
• Section 11571.
  If there is reason to believe that a nuisance, as described in Section 11570, is kept, maintained, or exists in any county, the district attorney...
• Section 11571.1.
  (a) Nothing in this article shall prevent a local governing body from adopting and enforcing laws, consistent with this article, relating to drug abatement. Where local...
• Section 11571.5.
  For purposes of this article, an action to abate a nuisance may be taken by the city attorney or city prosecutor of the city within...
• Section 11572.
  Unless filed by the district attorney, or the city attorney of an incorporated city, the complaint in the action shall be verified.(Amended by Stats. 1987,...
• Section 11573.
  (a)  If the existence of the nuisance is shown in the action to the satisfaction of the court or judge, either by verified complaint or...
• Section 11573.5.
  (a)  At the time of application for issuance of a temporary restraining order or injunction pursuant to Section 11573, if proof of the existence of...
• Section 11574.
  On granting the temporary writ the court or judge shall require an undertaking on the part of the applicant to the effect that the applicant...
• Section 11575.
  The action shall have precedence over all other actions, except criminal proceedings, election contests, hearings on injunctions, and actions to forfeit vehicles under this division.(Repealed...
• Section 11575.5.
  In any action for abatement instituted pursuant to this article, all evidence otherwise authorized by law, including evidence of reputation in a community, as provided...
• Section 11576.
  If the complaint is filed by a citizen it shall not be dismissed by him or for want of prosecution except upon a sworn statement...
• Section 11577.
  In case of failure to prosecute the action with reasonable diligence, or at the request of the plaintiff, the court, in its discretion, may substitute...
• Section 11578.
  If the action is brought by a citizen and the court finds there was no reasonable ground or cause for the action, the costs shall...
• Section 11579.
  If the existence of the nuisance is established in the action, an order of abatement shall be entered as part of the judgment in the...
• Section 11580.
  A violation or disobedience of the injunction or order for abatement is punishable as a contempt of court by a fine of not less than...
• Section 11581.
  (a)  If the existence of the nuisance is established in the action, an order of abatement shall be entered as a part of the judgment,...
• Section 11582.
  While the order of abatement remains in effect, the building or place is in the custody of the court.(Added by Stats. 1972, Ch. 1407.)
• Section 11583.
  For removing and selling the movable property, the officer is entitled to charge and receive the same fees as he would for levying upon and...
• Section 11584.
  The proceeds of the sale of the movable property shall be applied as follows:First—To the fees and costs of the removal and sale.Second—To the allowances...
• Section 11585.
  If the proceeds of the sale of the movable property do not fully discharge all of the costs, fees, and allowances, the building and place...
• Section 11586.
  (a)  If the owner of the building or place has not been guilty of any contempt of court in the proceedings, and appears and pays...
• Section 11587.
  Whenever the owner of a building or place upon which the act or acts constituting the contempt have been committed, or the owner of any...

Last modified: October 22, 2018