Pursuant to Ohio R.C. 715.261, the Village may recover the total cost of correcting the hazardous condition of building or abating nuisance as follows:
(a) As used in this section, "total cost" means any costs incurred due to the use of employees, materials, or equipment of the Village, any costs arising out of contracts for labor, materials, or equipment, and costs of service of notice or publication required under this section.
(b) The Village may collect the total cost of removing, repairing, or securing insecure, unsafe, structurally defective, abandoned, deserted, or open and vacant buildings or other structures, of making emergency corrections of hazardous conditions, or of abating any nuisance by either of the following methods:
(1) The Clerk-Treasurer may certify the total costs, together with a proper description of the lands, to the County Auditor, who shall place the costs upon the tax list and duplicate. The costs arc a lien upon such lands from and after the date the costs were incurred. The costs shall be collected as other taxes and returned to the Village, as directed by the Clerk-Treasurer in the certification of the total costs delivered to the County Auditor. The placement of the costs on the tax list and duplicate relates back to, and is effective in priority, as of the date the costs were incurred.
(2) The Village may commence a civil action to recover the total costs from the owner.
(c) The Village shall not certify to the County Auditor for placement upon the tax list and duplicate the cost of any action that it takes under division (b) of this section if the action is taken on land that has been forfeited to this State for delinquent taxes, unless the owner of record redeems the land.
(Ord. 10-07-01. Passed 7-13-10.)