(a) In case of an emergency which, in the opinion of the Building Commissioner, involves immediate danger to human life or health, the Building Commissioner may declare such condition a nuisance and shall promptly order and cause an unsafe building, structure or portion thereof or an immediate threat of substantial and/or irreparable physical or economic damage to a structure to be made safe or removed. For this purpose, he or she may at once enter such structure with such assistants and at such cost as he or she may deem necessary, order adjacent structures and premises to be vacated and protect the public by an appropriate fence or other such means as may be necessary, and for this purpose may close a public or private way.
(b) The Building Commissioner may take action necessary to immediately abate the violation constituting a nuisance without advance notice to the owner. Such action may include entering a property for the purposes of conducting an inspection, to the extent and in the manner allowed by law, ordering that the property be immediately vacated, ordering the cessation of utility service if necessary to protect life, health or property, and/or abate the violation constituting the nuisance. If the Building Commissioner abates a nuisance pursuant to this section, notice shall be provided to the owner within three days after the start of the abatement work in the same manner as notice is required in this section for non-emergency nuisance abatement.
(Ord. 1967-70. Passed 9-6-67; Ord. 17-08. Passed 2-21-17.)