What is the meaning of the term "summary abatement" to refer to all abatements accomplished without a civil action?

Using "summary abatement" to refer to all abatements accomplished without a civil action, however, is problematic. Absent an emergency situation, minimum administrative due process protections are required before the physical abatement. (Leppo v. City of Petaluma, supra, 20 Cal.App.3d at p. 717, 97 Cal.Rptr. 840; see also Mohilef v. Janovici (1996) 51 Cal.App.4th 267, 276, 286-301, 58 Cal.Rptr.2d 721.) Those instances where a hearing is required should be distinguished from those where an emergency excuses one. We prefer to reserve the term "summary abatement" for the latter cases and adopt the term "administrative abatement" for those situations requiring some form of predestruction hearing.