(A) The owner, owners, tenants, lessees and/or occupants of the property within the limits of the county upon which such violation is made, and also the owner, owners and/or lessees of said property personally involved in such violation (all of are herein after referred to collectively as “owners”) shall abate said violation after having been given a ten-day written notice from the County Code Enforcement Officer directing the abatement of said violation. The aforesaid ten-day notice period will begin on the date notice is issued.
(B) If the owner, within the ten-day notice period of said notice, denies the existence of said violation on his or her property, he or she may request in writing to have a hearing before the County Property Maintenance Code Appeals. Absent emergency condition further enforcement and abatement will be suspended until the Appeals Board reaches a final decision. If the violation is not abated within the allowed 15 days, the Director of Code Enforcement or his or her designee will be authorized to send employees or hire contractors upon said property to remedy the violation. The County Code Enforcement Officer shall bring a lien against the said property for the reasonable value of labor and materials used in remedying such violation. The affidavit of the Code Enforcement Officer shall constitute prima facie evidence of the amount of the lien and the regularity of the proceeding pursuant to this chapter, and shall be recorded in the office of the regularity of the proceeding pursuant to this chapter, and shall be recorded in the office of the County Court Clerk. The Director of Code Enforcement or Code Enforcement Officer may also bring criminal charges before the County District Court for enforcement of penalties hereinafter described.
(Ord. 2000-14, passed 12-11-2000)