9-25-17: REAL ESTATE TRANSFER STAMPS:
A property upon which is situated a vacant building for which an interior inspection has been requested by the director, or his designee, but which has not been authorized by the owner or owners or mortgagee in possession (if any), or other party with authority to consent to access to the interior of the property to the director and to the village's inspectors, code enforcement officers, and the director's designees, and/or in the event no such interior inspection has been conducted, or for which inspection fees or registration fees for the property have not been paid in full by the owners, the foreclosing mortgagee, or other responsible parties, or any of them, or which is not otherwise eligible under this chapter for village real estate transfer stamps, shall not be permitted to acquire said stamps until such inspection or inspections, as requested by the director, or his/her designee(s), has or have been conducted, all fees have been paid in full, and all code violations have been corrected and all eligibility issues have been addressed to the satisfaction of the building director. Unpaid fees shall be a lien upon the property. Nothing contained in this chapter shall require the village to pursue or procure an administrative warrant to perform an interior inspection, nor shall the failure to pursue to procure any such warranty waive or excuse the requirements set forth in this section, or to waive this requirement. (Ord. 2020-56, 6-16-2020)