1. Negligent housing management is hereby prohibited. A person commits negligent housing management when, having personal management or control of residential real estate, whether as a legal or equitable owner thereof, or as a managing agent or otherwise, he or she knowingly permits, by gross carelessness or neglect, the physical condition or facilities of the residential real estate to become or remain so deteriorated that the health and safety of an inhabitant is endangered.
2. Failure to comply with an action to correct a Village Code violation that is ordered by the code official or his or her designee that would address the conditions that are endangering the health and safety of an inhabitant, within seven (7) days of service of notice identifying the Village Code violation(s), will constitute a violation of this section. Each and every day that a Village Code violation persists after the seven (7) day notice period shall constitute a separate and distinct violation of this section.
3. Defacing, removing or covering up the placard from any dwelling, dwelling unit, or rooming unit, or causing another to deface, cover up, or remove a placard from any premises which has been designated as unfit for human habitation and has been placarded as such constitutes a violation of this section.
4. Penalty. Any person who violates the provisions of this section, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined according to the fine schedule located in Appendix B for this and any subsequent or continuing violations.
(Ord. 5444, 10-21-19)