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83 person or corporation, directly or indirectly, except 84 for a public purpose; 85 (11) Where not within the jurisdiction of the public 86 utilities commission, each county shall have the power 87 to regulate by ordinance the operation of motor 88 vehicle common carriers transporting passengers within 89 the county and adopt and amend rules the county deems 90 necessary for the public convenience and necessity; 91 (12) Each county shall have the power to enact and enforce 92 ordinances necessary to prevent or summarily remove 93 public nuisances and to compel the clearing or removal 94 of any public nuisance, refuse, and uncultivated 95 undergrowth from streets, sidewalks, public places, 96 and unoccupied lots . In connection with these powers, 97 each county may impose and enforce liens upon the 98 property for the cost to the county of removing and 99 completing the necessary work where the property 100 owners fail, after reasonable notice, to comply with 101 the ordinances . The authority provided by this 102 paragraph shall not be self-executing, but shall 103 become fully effective within a county only upon the 104 enactment or adoption by the county of appropriate and 105 particular laws, ordinances, or rules defining "public 106 nuisances" with respect to each county' s respective 107 circumstances . The counties shall provide the 108 property owner with the opportunity to contest the 109 summary action and to recover the owner' s property; 110 (13) Each county shall have the power to enact ordinances 111 deemed necessary to protect health, life, and 112 property, and to preserve the order and security of 113 the county and its inhabitants on any subject or 114 matter not inconsistent with, or tending to defeat, 115 the intent of any state statute where the statute does 116 not disclose an express or implied intent that the 117 statute shall be exclusive or uniform throughout the 118 State; 119 (14) Each county shall have the power to: 120 (A) Make and enforce within the limits of the county 121 all necessary ordinances covering all : 122 (i) Local police matters; 123 (ii) Matters of sanitation; 124 (iii) Matters of inspection of buildings; 125 (iv) Matters of condemnation of unsafe structures, 126 plumbing, sewers, dairies, milk, fish, and 127 morgues; and 128 (v) Matters of the collection and disposition of 129 rubbish and garbage;