(A) The city has the authority to require an inspection upon the notification or complaint from the occupant or any persons regarding the safety, appearance, or structural integrity of any rented or unrented mobile homes or manufactured homes in the city limits. The inspection will be completed by a State of Illinois licensed inspector. All fees and charges by said person or company will be paid by the manufactured home or mobile home owner.
(B) Any mobile home occupied as a dwelling or residence which shall be found to have any of the following defects, shall be proscribed as unfit for human habitation, or required to be brought up to standards of this chapter:
(1) The structure is so damaged, decayed, dilapidated, unsanitary, unsafe or vermin-infested that it creates a serious hazard to the health or safety of the occupants or of the public;
(2) The structure lacks ventilation or sanitation facilities adequate to protect the health or safety of the occupants or the public;
(3) Any mobile home proscribed as unfit for human habitation shall be vacated within a reasonable time, not to exceed 30 days, as ordered by the inspector or City Council;
(4) No dwelling or dwelling unit which has been proscribed as unfit for human habitation shall again be used for human habitation until written approval is secured from the inspector or City Council;
(5) Any owner of a mobile home declared unfit for human habitation shall be given written notice of same and shall have a period of 90 days to bring said mobile home into compliance with minimum housing standards and, in the event they fail to do so, said mobile home shall be removed from the premises;
(6) If said owner of said mobile home fails to bring said mobile home into compliance within the required period, or fails to remove said mobile home, the city shall have the right to go upon the property upon which said mobile home is situated and remove, or cause to be removed, said mobile home and the cost and expense of said removal shall be charged to the owner of said mobile home. Any cost and expense incurred by the city in the storing of said mobile home shall also be chargeable to, and the responsibility of, the owner of said mobile home. Any such expenses so incurred by the city and not paid by the owner within a period of 30 days after being provided of such expenses, and upon filing of such notice in the county clerk's office, the city shall become a lien holder upon any real estate and/or mobile home owned by said mobile home owner.
(Ord. 19-0709-177, passed 7-9-2019)