Whenever any person shall fail to comply with an order of the Building Inspector to repair, rehabilitate, vacate, or demolish immediately an unsafe building or structure and remove the material and debris as provided in § 150.131, the Building Inspector shall forthwith so report to the City Administrator, and the city shall proceed with such repair or demolition and removal as provided in §§ 150.136 through 150.147, inclusive, of this subchapter, except that the City Administrator may waive estimates of cost and bidding where the apparent cost of the work will not exceed the sum of $7,500, and the City Council, if it shall find that there exists and emergency may, by an ordinance adopted by three-fourths of the members of the City Council, waive estimates of cost and advertising for bids where the apparent cost of the work will exceed $7,500, and the expense of such repair, demolition, and removal may be paid as provided in § 150.148 and assessed against the lot or tract as provided in § 150.149.
(Prior Code, § 150.525) (Ord. 1382, passed 3-14-1988)