Every person, firm, or corporation maintaining a nuisance, or permitting, allowing, or suffering a nuisance to be maintained, as prohibited by this chapter or otherwise, shall be liable for all fines, penalties, costs, and expenses for abating the same when the nuisance has been abated by any office of the city. The costs and expenses may be assessed as a part of any prosecution against the party liable and may be recovered as other costs are recovered after they have been assessed; provided, that in such cases, the city shall have been liable in the first instance to pay all costs of the abatement. In all cases where the chief of police, or other office, abates any nuisance, he/she shall keep an account of all expenses attending such abatement and, in addition to other powers given in this chapter to collect such other costs and expenses, may forthwith bring suit for recovery of the costs in any court of competent jurisdiction, in the name of the city, against the person maintaining, keeping, creating, or permitting, allowing, or suffering the nuisance abated, and, upon the collection of the costs by such suit, he/she shall pay the same to the city treasurer. The provisions of this chapter relative to the abatement of nuisances are not exclusive, and all other rights or remedies of the city, or any citizen thereof, relative to abatement of nuisances, are declared to remain in full force and effect. (Ord. 2187 § 1, 1998; Ord. 2011 § 2, 1994)