Pursuant to KRS 83A.060(5), the 2012 International Property Maintenance Code, and subsequent amendments and future editions thereto, as published by the International Code Council, be and is hereby adopted as the Property Maintenance Code of the City of Independence, Kenton County, Kentucky for regulating and governing the conditions and maintenance of all property, buildings and structures, by providing the standards for supplied utilities and facilities and other physical things and conditions essential to ensure that structures are safe, sanitary and fit for occupation and use; and the condemnation of buildings and structures unfit for human occupancy and use, and the demolition of such existing structures as herein provided; providing for the issuance of permits and collection of fees therefor; and each and all of the regulations, provisions, penalties, conditions and terms of said Property Maintenance Code on file in the City of Independence are hereby referred to adopted, and made a part hereof, as if fully set out in this section, with the additions, insertions, deletions and changes, prescribed in Section III of the ordinance codified herein.
(Ord. 2015-O-21, passed 9-14-15)