(a) If the owner or occupant of a dangerous building fails or refuses to vacate it after notice is served and within the time for compliance, the City Inspector shall institute proceedings in the Municipal Court under Section 1319.99(a).
(b) If the owner fails or refuses to repair a dangerous building after notice and within the time for compliance, the City Inspector shall post a notice in conspicuous places on or in the building stating that the building is a dangerous building and shall not be occupied or used for any purpose until it has been repaired and approved by the City Inspector. Such notice may not thereafter be removed by anyone other than the City Inspector or his authorized agent.
(c) If the owner of a dangerous building fails or refuses to demolish it after notice and within the time for compliance, the City Inspector is authorized to take the necessary measures to accomplish its demolition and removal. He shall advertise for bids for a contract for such demolition for a period of two weeks in a newspaper of general circulation within the City, and shall present such bids to the City Board of Control for its acceptance or rejection. Only the lowest and best bid may be accepted by the City.
The costs incurred by the City in the demolition and removal shall be paid from the City Treasury out of the proper City fund as designated by the ordinance or resolution authorizing the contract for demolition. The City may appropriate to its own use any materials obtained in demolishing the building to compensate the City for any part of the cost of demolition. The total costs of such demolition, whether such costs are incurred due to the use of employees, materials and equipment of the City by contract for labor, materials and equipment, or both, including the cost of service of publication of notice, together with a proper description of the premises, shall be certified to the Crawford County Auditor by the Clerk of Council to be placed by him on the tax duplicate as a lien upon such premises to be collected as other taxes and returned to the City, all as provided in Ohio R.C. 715.261.
(Ord. 23-2006. Passed 7-18-06.)