A. This chapter shall not be construed to prevent the enforcement of other applicable ordinances, codes, legislation, and regulations which prescribe standards other than are provided herein. When a provision of this chapter conflicts with any other provision of the code regulating the same subject matter, the more stringent or restrictive provision shall apply.
B. Unless otherwise specifically provided, the owner or owners, and his, her, their or its agent for the purpose of managing, controlling or collecting rents and any other person managing or controlling a building or premises, including foreclosing mortgagees, in any part of which there is a violation of the provisions of this chapter shall be liable for any violation therein, existing or occurring, or which may have existed or occurred, at or during any time when such person is or was the person owning or managing, controlling, or acting as agent in regard to said buildings or premises and is subject to injunctions, abatement orders or other remedial orders. Wherever used in said provisions of this code, the “owner” shall include any person entitled under any agreement to the control or direction of the management or disposition of the building or premises or of any part of the building or premises where the violation in question occurs.
C. The liabilities and obligations hereunder imposed on an owner shall attach to a trustee under land trust, holding legal title to property with such building, structure or premises without the right of possession, management or control, unless said trustee in a proceeding under said provisions of this code discloses in a verified pleading or in an affidavit filed with the court, the name and last known address of each person who was a beneficiary of the trust at the time of the alleged violation and of each person, if any, the person(s) who hold the power of direction over said land trust, and the person who was then acting as agent for the purpose of managing, controlling or collecting rents, as the same may appear on the records of the trust.
D. In addition to the liabilities and obligations imposed on an owner or owners, this chapter imposes obligations and liabilities on mortgagees that hold a mortgage on property in the village, as well as on certain responsible parties as provided in this chapter. (Ord. 2014-46, 6-3-2014; amd. Ord. 2020-56, 6-16-2020)