Any lender under a note secured by a mortgage or any person, firm, or corporation holding a mortgage on a property who has filed a complaint for foreclosure by judicial action or is publishing a notice of foreclosure by advertisement, shall within five days of either filing the complaint or publishing the notice, inspect the property subject matter of the foreclosure proceedings. If the property is vacant or shows evidence of either being abandoned or vacant, the property shall forthwith be registered within ten days pursuant to this chapter. The property shall thereafter be inspected at least once monthly until any rights of the lender or party holding a mortgage no longer exists in the subject property.
A lender and/or party holding a mortgage shall undertake all reasonable and necessary steps to continue utility service to the subject parcel in order to avoid sump pump failure, back-up, broken pipes, or other damage to the subject property.
(Ord. 387. Passed 7-27-09.)