The Village Administrator, Village Zoning Inspector, or the Village Chief of Police shall be authorized to complete the inspections referred to in subsections (a), (b), (c); to serve the notices required by subsections (d) and (e); and to place the notice required by subsection (f). The Village Administrator is authorized to obtain the opinions of competent experts including fire inspectors, representatives of the County Building Inspector’s office, professional engineers, and sanitarians if necessary to enforce the provisions of this chapter. (Ord. 16-90.)
(a) Inspect or cause to be inspected semiannually all public buildings, schools, halls, churches, theaters, hotels, tenements, commercial, manufacturing or loft buildings for the purpose of determining whether any conditions exist which render such places dangerous buildings within the terms of Section 1305.01
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(b) Inspect any building, wall or structure about which complaints are filed by any person to the effect that a building, wall or structure is or may be existing in violation of this chapter.
(c) Inspect any building, wall or structure reported (as hereinafter provided for) by the Fire or Police Departments of the Village as probably existing in violation of the terms of this chapter.
(d) Notify in writing the owner, occupant, lessee, mortgagee, agent and all other persons having an interest in such building, as shown by the land records of the County Recorder of Deeds, of any building bound by him to be dangerous within the standards set forth in Section 1305.01 that:
(1) The owner must vacate, repair or demolish such building in accordance with the terms of the notice and this chapter;
(2) The occupant or lessee must vacate such building or may have it repaired in accordance with the notice and remain in possession;
(3) The mortgagee, agent or other person having an interest in such building as shown by the land records of the County Recorder of Deeds may at his own risk repair, vacate or demolish such building or have such work or act done.
Any person notified under this subsection (d) to repair, vacate or demolish any building shall be given such reasonable time, not exceeding sixty days, as may be necessary to do or have done the work or act required by the notice provided for herein.
(e) Set forth in the notice provided for in subsection (d) hereof a description of the building or structure deemed unsafe, a statement of the particulars which make the building or structure a dangerous building, and an order requiring the same to be put in such condition as to comply with the terms of this chapter within such length of time, not exceeding sixty days, as is reasonable.
(f) Place a notice on all dangerous buildings reading as follows:
“This building has been found to be a dangerous building by the Building Inspector. This notice is to remain on this building until it is repaired, vacated or demolished in accordance with the notice which has been given the owner, occupant, lessee, mortgagee or agent of this building, and other persons having an interest in such building as shown by the land records of the Recorder of Deeds of Wood County. It is unlawful to remove this notice until such notice is complied with.”