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information to the council. The City Council may assess these costs against each separate lot and parcel pursuant to Minn. Stat. § 429.101(a)(1). (c) All salt, sand, and other deicing materials stored outdoors must be covered at all times. When not using a permanent roof, a waterproof impermeable, flexible cover must be placed over all storage piles. The cover must prevent runoff and leachate from being generated by the outdoor storage piles. The cover must be secured to prevent removal by wind or other storm events. Piles must be formed in a conical shape and covered as necessary to prevent leaching. Salt must be stored on an impervious surface. Property owners shall implement practices to reduce exposure when transferring material from salt storage areas (ex. Sweeping, diversions, and/or containment). Sec. 46-37. Weed and Grass Elimination (a) Nuisance conditions. Owners and occupants of property shall abate or prevent the following nuisances on property owned or occupied by them and on land outside the traveled portion of the street, highway or alley abutting such property: (1) Plants defined by law to be injurious to public health, public roads, crops, livestock, and property, and otherwise known as noxious weeds. (2) Any weeds or grass growing to a height greater than eight inches, or which have gone or are about to go to seed. (b) Publication of notice. On or before May 15 of each year, and at any other time as directed by the council, the city shall publish once in its official newspaper a notice directing owners and occupants of property within the city to destroy on their property all weeds and grass described in subsection (a) of this section. As a minimum, the notice shall require elimination of such weeds and grass within ten days of such publication and further state that, if any such nuisance is not eliminated as required, the city will eliminate the nuisance at the owner's expense, the cost of which work will be made a special assessment against the property if not paid. (c) Mailing of notice. (1) When a nuisance appears to exist in violation of subsection (a) of this section, the city shall serve notice upon the owner and occupant of the property, or the agent of each, by certified mail or by personal service, ordering such owner and occupant to have such weeds or grass cut and removed within ten days after the mailing of the notice and also stating that in case of noncompliance such work will be done by the city at the expense of the owner and that, if unpaid, the charge for such work will be made a special assessment against the property concerned. (2) When no owner, occupant or agent of the owner or occupant can be found, notice shall be posted on the property on which the nuisance exists ten days before the city eliminates the nuisance, which posting shall constitute mailed and published notice pursuant to this section. (3) Lack of receipt of notice shall not constitute a defense to the requirements of this section, provided good faith efforts to comply with this section are made.