(A) Whenever the Mayor or his or her designated representative, or any other authorized officer of the city shall be of the opinion that any building or structure in the city is a dangerous building, he or she shall file a written statement to this effect with the City Clerk.
(B) The Clerk shall thereupon cause written notice to be served upon the owner thereof and upon the occupant thereof, if any, by certified mail or by personal service.
(C) Such notices shall state that the building has been declared to be in a dangerous condition, and that such dangerous condition must be removed or remedied by repairing or altering the building or by demolishing it, and that the condition must be remedied at once.
(D) Such notice shall be served upon the proper parties not less than 15 days before the city shall file application with the County Circuit Court for an order authorizing the demolition or repair of said building.
(E) Such notice may be in the following terms:
“TO: _________________________________ (OWNER/OCCUPANT of premises) of the premises known and described as ___________________________________________________.
‘You are hereby notified that ____________________________________________________
_____________________ (describe building) on the premises above mentioned has been condemned as a nuisance and a dangerous building after inspection by ______________________________.
‘The causes for this decision are _________________________________________________
__________________ (here insert the facts as to the dangerous condition)___________________.
‘You must remedy this condition or demolish the building immediately within 15 days from the date of this notice or the City will proceed to do so.”
(F) In the event that the building is not demolished or repaired or altered within the 15-day period of time elapsing from the date of the service of notice, then the city shall institute application before the County Circuit Court requesting an order authorizing the demolition, alteration or repair of said building premises and the cost of such entailments shall be recovered from the owner or owners of such real estate and shall be a lien thereon.
(1999 Code, § 6-1-3)