(A) The Code Enforcement Division shall be a division of the Planning Department. The Division shall consist of staff that shall enforce, within the city limits, the ordinances of the city and the laws of the state relating to:
(1) The maintenance of buildings and other structures in a safe, sanitary, and healthful condition, including but not limited to, minimum housing and abandoned structure standards;
(2) Garbage, trash, weeds, and other debris;
(3) Health and sanitation;
(4) Public nuisances and motor vehicle abandonment;
(5) Zoning (UDO), within the city and the one-mile extraterritorial jurisdiction; and
(6) Other matters that may be specified by the City Council, within the city and the one-mile extraterritorial jurisdiction.
(B) Housing and unsafe buildings. Code Enforcement is directed to proceed under the provisions of Chapter 152: Minimum Housing and Abandoned Structures, in enforcing minimum standards of fitness for the initial and continued occupancy of all buildings used for human habitation, and non-residential buildings. In the event that Code Enforcement staff find that a building, because of its condition, is dangerous or unsafe or contains fire hazardous conditions, it shall be the duty of the Code Enforcement Inspector to notify the owner and occupant of the building of its defects, hazardous conditions, or failure to comply with the law. The owner of a building shall immediately remedy the defects, hazardous conditions, or violations of the law, in accordance with Chapter 152: Minimum Housing and Abandoned Structures.
(Ord. 2023-44, passed 7-17-23)
Cross-reference:
Abandoned and junked vehicles, see Chapter 90
Garbage and trash generally, Chapter 50
Health and sanitation, see Chapter 94
Minimum housing and abandoned structures, Chapter 152
Nuisances, see Chapter 96
Zoning generally, Chapter 153