27-4.01   Means of Appeal.
In that a Code Enforcement and Nuisance Board has been established for the City of Bowling Green, the appropriate sections of the International Property Maintenance Code dealing with means of appeal is deleted in its entirety and that Section shall henceforth read as follows:
   a.   Correction time. The International Property Maintenance Code is amended to provide that any request for additional time to come into compliance shall be made by written application to, or verbal agreement with the code official within the time allowed in the correction order except as set out hereinbelow. The City may extend the correction time, in its sole discretion, if it determines that the correction time is not reasonable given the facts of a particular violation. It shall be the duty of the violator to notify the City that additional time is needed and to provide justification why the correction time is inadequate. Code officials are not authorized to grant requests for additional time to correct an unsafe / problem structure as defined in Subsection 27-4.02 (a) below and any request for additional time to correct such a problem structure shall take the form of an appeal to the Bowling Green Code Enforcement and Nuisance Board. An appeal may be filed by any party with an equitable interest in the property and any such appeal must be filed within the remedy period specified in Subsection 27-4.02 (b).
   b.   Appeals. The International Property Maintenance Code is amended to provide that all appeals of a citation issued by the code official shall be made pursuant to the requirements hereinbelow.
(Ord. BG2003-61, 12/2/2003; Ord. BG2007-3, 3/20/2007; Ord. BG2014-12, 8/5/2014; Ord. BG2022-41, 9/6/2022)