(A) The city shall send a notice to the owner by certified mail, return receipt requested, or by personal or substitute service, for the failure to complete a vacant building registration application, register the vacant building, and/or pay the registration fee for a vacant building. Each shall constitute a separate violation. Proof of mailing of said notice shall be primia facie evidence of receipt of the notice. The owner shall have twenty-one days in which to complete a vacant building registration application, register the vacant building and/or pay the registration fee for a vacant building as set forth in the notice; if the violation is not resolved within 21 days, the fine amount shall be the amount of the registration fee due and owing plus not less than $100 and not more than $750 for each violation; additionally, in the event that the city is required to perform a search to ascertain the owner, the owner is responsible to reimburse the city for said costs. Further, an owner who fails to re-register the vacant building and/or pay the renewal registration fee as provided herein shall be subject to the same penalties as set forth above in connection with an owner who originally fails to complete a vacant building registration application, register the vacant building and/or pay the registration fee for a vacant building.
(B) If the owner of any building fails to comply with the notice to register within 10 days after the date of mailing of the notice, the Building Inspector may in addition to the other remedies provided herein file a complaint in the Circuit Court requesting the registration of the building by the owner and further requesting compliance with this chapter, amongst other relief.
(C) Additionally, any person who violates any other provision of this chapter shall be fined not less than $60 and not more than $750 for each offense, and each day that a violation occurs shall constitute a new and additional offense in violation of this chapter. Further, again, the remedies as provided herein are in addition to all other legal and/or equitable remedies available to the city. Such other remedies include, but are not limited to, injunctive relief, application to a court of competent jurisdiction for receiver, demolition, or condemnation, contracting for the repair or purchase of the premises, or foreclosure of any lien that the city may have thereon. Each day that a violation of this chapter shall be permitted to continue shall constitute a separate offense in violation.
(Ord. 2246, passed 10-4-2010; Am. Ord. 2479, passed 3-11-2014)