(A) If the owners or those in possession of a building refuse inspection, an inspection officer of the enforcement authority may seek an inspection warrant from any court of record in the county in which the building is located in order to determine if the building is an unsafe building.
(B) (1) The person seeking the warrant must establish that the building to be searched or inspected is to be searched or inspected as part of a legally authorized program of inspection that naturally includes the building, or that there is probable cause for believing that a condition, object, activity, or circumstance legally justifies a search or inspection of that building; and
(2) An affidavit establishing one of the grounds described in division (B)(1) above must be signed under oath or affirmation by the affiant.
(2005 Code, § 152.45) (Ord. G-04-24, passed 8-19-2004)