The Code Enforcement Board shall have the powers to:
(A) Adopt any and all policies, rules and regulations, reasonably required to implement, administer and conduct its business and hearings brought before it.
(B) Conduct evidentiary hearings to determine whether there has been a violation of the property maintenance code. Any member of the Code Enforcement Board, including the chairperson, maybe assigned to conduct hearings on behalf of the Code Enforcement Board.
(C) Subpoena alleged violators, witnesses, and evidence to its hearings. Subpoenas issued by the Code Enforcement Board may be served by any code enforcement officer, code official, or any person authorized under applicable law.
(D) Take testimony under oath. The chairperson of the Code Enforcement Board, or an assigned hearing officer, or counsel to the Code Enforcement Board shall have the authority to administer oaths to witnesses prior to their testimony before the Code Enforcement Board or hearing officers on any matter.
(E) Make findings and issue orders that are necessary to remedy any violation of the property maintenance code.
(F) Impose fines, charges, costs, penalties, and/or fees, including administrative fees, on any person to have violated the property maintenance code.
(G)
Charges for nuisance abatement shall be a lien on the premises. Nuisance abatement charges shall include labor, equipment usage, fuel and oil, attorneys' fees, filing fees, publication costs, court costs, and all other fees and charges whenever incurred by the city for the abatement of the nuisance, enforcement of the lien and foreclosure on the property. Whenever a bill for charges remains unpaid for 60 days after it has been rendered, the City Clerk may file with the County Clerk a nuisance abatement lien. This lien shall contain a legal description of the premises, the expenses and costs incurred, the date the nuisance was abated and a notice that the city claims a lien for charges. Notice of the lien claim shall be mailed to the owner of the premises at his or her the last known address.
(H) The City Attorney is authorized and directed to institute such proceedings, in the name of the city, in any court having jurisdiction over the matter, against any property for which the bill has remained unpaid 60 days after it has been rendered.
(Ord. 92A, passed 8-19-2013; Ord. 2023-03, passed 5-16-2023)