1181.03   REPAIR AND RESTORATION OF BUILDINGS OF NONCONFORMING USES.
   (a)   Nothing in this chapter shall prevent the strengthening, restoration, completion, reconstruction, extension or substitution of a nonconforming use to a safe condition of any structural part of any building declared unsafe by the Building Commissioner or other authorized administrative official or agency of the City. Such repairs shall not exceed fifty percent of the valuation of such building as specified on the tax duplicate contained in the County Recorder's office, unless the building is being changed to a conforming use.
   (b)   A nonconforming use or building which is more than fifty percent destroyed or removed by whatever cause, including acts of God but excluding malicious mischief or vandalism, shall not be permitted restored or replaced except to a conforming use in the use district.
(Ord. 112-60. Passed 6-6-60.)