The Building Official shall perform the duties set forth below:
(A) Inspect semi-annually all public buildings, schools, halls, churches, theaters, hotels, restaurants, tenements, commercial manufacturing or loft buildings for the purpose of determining whether any conditions exist which render any such place a dangerous building within the terms of this subchapter;
(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 subchapter;
(C) Inspect any building, wall or structure reported as hereinafter provided for by the Fire Department or Police Department as probably existing in violation of the terms of this subchapter;
(D) (1) Notify in writing by mail the owner, occupant, lessee, mortgagee, agent and all other persons having an interest in said building as shown by the land records of the County Recorder and Registrar of Titles, and whose addresses can be ascertained, of any building found by him or her to be a dangerous building within the standards set forth in § 150.060 of this chapter that:
(a) The owner must vacate or repair, or demolish said building in accordance with the terms of the notice and this subchapter;
(b) The occupant or lessee must vacate said building, or may have it repaired in accordance with the notice and remain in possession; and/or
(c) The mortgagee, agent or other person having an interest in said building as shown by the land records, may, at his or her own risk, repair, vacate or demolish said building or have such work or act done.
(2) Provided that, any person notified under this division (D) to repair, vacate or demolish any building shall be given such reasonable time 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 division (D) above, a description of the building or structure deemed unsafe, a statement of the particulars which made 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 subchapter within such length of time as is reasonable;
(F) Report to the Council any non-compliance with the notice provided for in divisions (D) and (E) above;
(G) Appear at all hearings conducted by the Council and testify as to the condition of dangerous buildings; and
(H) Place a notice on all dangerous buildings reading as follows:
“This building has been found to be a dangerous building by the Building Official. 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 all other persons having an interest in said building, as shown by the land records of the County Recorder. It is unlawful to remove this notice until such notice is complied with.”
(1992 Code, § 1015:20)