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No rooms shall be used for sleeping purposes by more persons than can be accommodated without danger or detriment to health. No owner shall rent quarters to more persons and no occupants shall use quarters for more persons than allowed by the rules and regulations of the Board of Health.
(Ord. 8075. Passed 7-16-45.)
Any dwelling, dwelling unit or building which has become unfit for human habitation because it has deteriorated so as to become unhealthful, unsanitary, so difficult to heat as to be unhealthful or because the owner or occupant failed to comply with the orders of the Board or Commissioner of Health, based on the conditions of this chapter or on rules and regulations adopted by the Board pursuant to the conditions of this chapter, may be condemned by the Commissioner of Health and shall be vacated within a reasonable time as ordered by the Commissioner.
Such dwelling, dwelling unit or building may be placarded by the Commissioner of Health. Such dwelling, dwelling unit or building shall not be used until the placard is removed by the Commissioner of Health. Such building, dwelling or dwelling unit shall only be so condemned or placarded after the owner, or if there is more than one owner, at least one owner, if he or she can be found, has been served in writing with the reason why such placard is to be placed and has been given an opportunity to appeal in writing to the Board of Health.
The appeal shall state his or her claimed grounds why such dwelling, dwelling unit or building should not be condemned or placarded. Such appeal must be filed within five days after service of the notice, which service may be personal or by registered mail, return receipt requested. At the time of such filing, the one filing the appeal shall be informed of the time and place of the hearing. The hearing shall be commenced within thirty days after the filing of such appeal. The proceedings upon such appeal shall be reduced to writing and entered on record at the office of the Board of Health. Their decision may be subject to review by a court of record, provided a petition shall have been filed in such court within twenty days after the decision of the Board of Health.
(Ord. 8075. Passed 7-16-45.)
No person engaged in or in charge of public or private work shall permit or suffer such work to be prosecuted without providing the proper sanitary facilities for the laborers, tradesmen, workmen and persons engaged in such work. Such sanitary facilities shall be properly secluded and constructed or provided in such manner as is approved by the Service Director on public work, and the Building Commissioner on private work.
(Ord. 8075. Passed 7-16-45.)
(a) No owner, occupant, agent, lessee or other person having control of any lot or land within the limits of the City shall suffer or permit water thereon at any time to become stagnant or undrained, but when ordered by the Commissioner of Health, shall fill up or drain such lot or land and remove all putrid substances therefrom.
(Ord. 8075. Passed 7-16-45.)
(b) No person shall fail to comply with the following requirements within the lawful time after service or publication of the notice or resolution is made as required by law:
To fill or drain any lot or land or remove all putrid substances therefrom, or remove all obstructions from culverts, covered drains or natural watercourses as provided in Ohio R.C. 715.47.
(a) No person shall throw or deposit or permit to be thrown or deposited any dirt, paper, filth, sweepings, ashes, shavings, filthy water, offal, straw, wood, stones, earth, manure, refuse matter or rubbish of any kind whatsoever, into any public street, lane, alley or public property.
(b) The depositing and dumping of fill dirt, topsoil, ashes, straw, manure and any other substance conducive to the growth of vegetation shall be permitted upon private property with the consent of the owner of such property and with permission of the Service Director.
(c) Any person violating the provisions of this section shall forthwith remove the same on order of the Director.
(Ord. 140-1974. Passed 6-3-74.)
(a) Every person, firm or corporation having possession, charge or management of any occupied or unoccupied area shall maintain the area in a sanitary manner and shall preserve the health and further the welfare of the residents of the City by cutting and destroying, or causing to be cut or destroyed, all noxious weeds, plants or other growths, and further by removing all accumulations of garbage, fallen tree branches, cans or other debris upon such occupied or unoccupied area.
(Ord. 197-1989. Passed 9-18-89.)
(b) The Service Director is hereby authorized to give notice in writing to the person, firm or corporation having possession or control of any occupied or unoccupied land to cut and destroy, or cause to be cut or destroyed, all noxious weeds, plants or other growths, and further, to remove all accumulations of garbage, fallen tree branches, cans or other debris thereon. Upon failure to comply with such notice within forty-eight hours, the weeds or other growths shall be cut or destroyed by the City or its agent, or the garbage, fallen tree branches, cans or other debris shall be removed by the City or its agent, and the cost thereof, including any direct administrative costs, charged to the owner of such land at a standard rate which shall be just and equitable and which shall be determined by the Service Director. On failure of the owner to pay the cost within thirty days after billing, the cost may be assessed against the land or a civil suit may be instituted at the discretion of the Director of Law. Such assessment or civil suit shall be in addition to the penalty provided in Section 1101.99.
(Ord. 140-1995. Passed 6-5-95.)
(c) The Service Director is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to advertise for bids and to enter into a contract(s) for the hiring of a contractor(s) to be used to cut grass and remove debris on private property pursuant to subsection (b) hereof for a one-year period commencing upon execution of the contract(s). Such contract(s) shall be in accordance with specifications on file in the office of the Director. Such contract(s) shall be entered into after advertising for not less than two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the City and shall be awarded by the Board of Control to the lowest and best bidder. The specifications on file in the office of the Director are hereby approved. The contract shall be in a form approved by the Director of Law and shall be in conformance with such specifications. It shall be executed by the Service Director. Funds to pay for this expenditure are to be initially derived from the appropriate City fund and reimbursed to it by the owners involved.
(Ord. 198-1989. Passed 9-18-89.)
The Mayor or designee is hereby authorized to direct utility service shut-off before the meter for all properties determined to be vacant and unsafe structures:
(a) If at any time there is property within the City of Euclid that has been determined to be vacant and unsafe whereby the Mayor or designee shall contact the appropriate utility company and direct that utility service to that property be shut-off prior to the metering device, subject to utility requirements for notification to property owners of record as required by law.
(b) For purposes of this determination:
(1) "Unsafe" means all buildings or structures that are injurious to or a menace to the public health, safety or welfare, or are structurally unsafe, unsanitary or not provided with adequate safe egress, or constitute a fire hazard, or are vacant and open to public entry, or are otherwise dangerous to human life or injurious to the public, or in relation to existing use constitute a hazard to the public health, safety or welfare by reason of inadequate maintenance, dilapidation, obsolescence or abandonment. All unsafe structures or conditions are declared to be public nuisances.
(2) "Utility" means any company, in the business of providing electrical, water, gas, telephone, cable, or other utility service to a building or structure.
(3) "Vacant" means that no person actually and legally resides in any part of the structure or that no person conducts a lawful business in any part of the structure.
(4) "Shut-off' means to stop the flow of gas, electricity, water or other utility service from entering the premises prior to reaching a metering device.
(Ord. 70-2010. Passed 5-3-10.)
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