(A) If the owner of property in the city does not comply with the requirements of this subchapter within ten days of notice of a violation, the city may:
(1) Do the work or make the improvements required; and
(2) Pay for the work done or improvements made and charge the expenses to the owner of the property.
(B) The notice must be given:
(1) Personally to the owner in writing;
(2) By letter addressed to the owner at the owner’s post office address; or
(3) If personal service cannot be obtained or the owner’s post office address is unknown:
(a) By publication at least once;
(b) By posting the notice on or near the front door of each building on the property to which the violation relates; or
(c) By posting the notice on a placard attached to a stake driven into the ground on the property to which the violation relates, if the property contains no buildings.
(C) If a notice is mailed in accordance with division (B), and the United States Postal Service returns the notice as “refused” or “unclaimed,” the validity of the notice is not affected, and considered delivered.
(D) The city in the notice of a violation may inform the owner by certified mail, return receipt requested, that if the owner commits another violation of the same kind or nature that poses a danger to the public health and safety on or before the first anniversary of the date of the notice, the city, without further notice, may correct the violation at the owner’s expense and assess the expense against the property. If a violation covered by a notice under this division occurs within the one-year period, and the city has not been informed in writing by the owner of an ownership change, then the city, without notice, may take any action permitted in divisions (A)(1) and (A)(2), and assess its expenses as provided by § 95.24, or as provided for in § 10.99.
(`87 Code, § 12-13) (Am. Ord. 1995-7, passed 4-4-95; Am. Ord. 2018-3, passed 4-3-18)