1340.20 DECLARATION OF NUISANCE.
   (a)   For the purposes of this Building Code, any building or structure that is injurious to or a menace to the public health, safety or welfare; or is structurally unsafe, unsanitary or not provided with adequate safe egress, or constitutes a fire hazard, or is vacant and open to public entry, or otherwise seen to be a fire hazard or public safety hazard, or in relation to existing use, constitutes a hazard to the public health, safety, or welfare by reason of inadequate maintenance, dilapidation, obsolescence, or abandonment, fire, or other disaster, or is a nuisance as defined in this Chapter, is, severally, declared to be an "unsafe structure". Any unsafe structures or conditions is declared to be a public nuisance.
   (b)   The public nuisance shall be abated by correction of the violations to the minimum standards of the Codified Ordinances of the Village of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, applicable rules and regulations, the Ohio Revised Code and the Ohio Administrative Code, including the Ohio Building Code, or by demolition.
(Ord. 2018-10. Passed 3-12-18.)