(A) The Code Enforcement Board shall each year determine which properties in the city are abandoned urban properties and shall prepare and furnish a list of abandoned and urban properties located in the city to the City Clerk prior to January 1 of each year.
(B) Except as otherwise provided herein, a property classified by the city as abandoned urban property as of January 1 shall be taxed as abandoned urban property for that tax year. If the owner repairs, rehabilitates, or otherwise returns the property to productive use so that the property is no longer abandoned urban property, the owner shall notify the Code Enforcement Board, which shall, if it finds that the property is no longer abandoned urban property, notify the City Clerk to strike the property from the list of abandoned urban properties as of the succeeding January 1.
(C) No later than March 1 of each year, the City Clerk shall mail, by first-class mail, to the owner(s) of each abandoned urban property, whose name(s) is/are listed in the records of the Code Enforcement Board, a notice that the property has been classified as abandoned urban property.
(D) The owner of any abandoned urban property who believes that their property has been incorrectly classified may appeal the classification to the city's Code Enforcement Board. The appeal shall be in writing and shall be made no later than April 1 of that year. The city shall afford the owner the opportunity for a hearing before the Code Enforcement Board. If the Code Enforcement Board finds that the property was incorrectly classified as abandoned urban property, it shall cause the property to be removed from the list of properties so classified.
(Ord. 2012-006, passed 8-20-2012; Am. Ord. 2019-015, passed 1-6-2020)