In emergency cases, the police chief or his or her designee is hereby authorized to summarily abate gang-related graffiti. The abatement may be undertaken by city staffer representatives, or by outside contractors. For purposes of this section only, gang-related graffiti shall be defined as graffiti that is placed on private or public property by some person or person reasonably believed by the city’s police department or other local law enforcement agency to be a member of, or affiliated with a criminal street gang, as that term is defined in Penal Code Section 186.22. The costs of summary abatement, including the costs of removal and other expenses of abatement, may be assessed against the person causing or creating the graffiti, or a responsible adult, or an emancipated minor who is responsible for creating the graffiti. Recovery of the costs of removal or expenses of abatement may be enforced by the city in the manner and following the procedures described in Government Code Section 38773.2. (Ord. 2240 NCS §1 (part), 2006.)