(A) Whenever the Mayor, any police officer, City Attorney, City Recorder, Building Inspector, Fire Chief or any Council member shall find or be of the opinion that there is a dangerous building in the city, it shall be the duty of such person to report the same to the City Council. Thereupon, the City Council shall, within a reasonable time, fix a time and place for a public hearing thereon.
(B) Notice shall be mailed to the owner or owners of record of the premises whereon said building is located, by the City Recorder, notifying said owner or owners in general terms that a hearing will be held concerning said property, and the time and place thereof. At said time and place, or at such other time or times, or place or places, as the Council may adjourn or recess to, said hearing shall be held, and the Council shall determine by resolution whether or not said building is dangerous.
(C) The Council may, as a part of said hearing, inspect said building, and the facts observed by said Council at such inspection may be considered by it in determining whether or not said building is dangerous. At said hearing, the owner or owners or other persons interested in said property or building shall have the right to be heard, if such owner or owners or persons requests the same. Ten days’ notice of any such hearing shall be given by publication in a newspaper published in the city, or by posting notices thereof in three public places in said city, and if the last mentioned notice be published or given as herein required, no irregularity or failure to mail notices shall invalidate the proceedings.
(D) At such hearing, the Council shall have the power to order any building declared to be dangerous, removed and abated if, in its judgment, such removal or abatement is necessary in order to remove said dangerous condition. Or, the Council shall have the power to order said building made safe and to prescribe what acts or things must be done to render the same safe.
(E) (1) Five days’ notice of said findings and of any orders made by the Council shall be given to the owner of said building, his or her agent or other persons controlling the same, and, if said orders be not obeyed, and said building be not rendered safe within the time in said order specified, being not less than five days, then the Council shall have the power and duty to order said building removed or made safe at the expense of the property on which the same may be situated.
(2) In that event, the Council must specify with convenient certainty the work to be done, and shall file a statement thereof with the Recorder, and shall advertise for bids for the doing of said work in the manner provided for advertising for bids for street improvement work, and, thereafter, said bids shall be received, opened, and contract let, the Council shall ascertain and determine the probable cost of said work, and assess the same against the property upon which said building is situated, said assessment shall be declared by an ordinance, and it shall be entered in the docket of city liens, and shall thereupon be and become a lien against said property, and the creation of said lien and the collection and enforcement of said cost shall all be done and performed in substantially the same manner as in the case of the cost of street improvements, but irregularities or informalities in the procedure shall be disregarded.
(F) Of the contracts therefor, any right of such owner or owners to contest said proceedings or to otherwise prevent the city from proceeding with said work and enforcing said lien, shall be lost and the owner or owners shall be deemed to have given consent proceedings, work, lien and collection and enforcement thereof.
(Prior Code, § 150.17) (Ord. 216, passed 2-9-1960)