(2) Any person violating the provisions of §§ 15.1, 15.2 or 15.20 of this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor each day such violation continues. In addition, the City Attorney may seek civil penalties in an amount not to exceed $500 per violation in any civil action brought to enforce any provision of this chapter.
(B) Abatement of substandard buildings, public nuisances, and blighted conditions.
(1) Whenever an enforcement officer has inspected or caused to be inspected any building, structure, or property and has found and determined that such building or structure is a "substandard building," that such property is a "public nuisance," or that such property contains "blighted conditions," as these terms are defined in this chapter, he or she may commence an administrative proceeding to abate the building, nuisance or condition.
(2) Administrative proceedings to abate a substandard building, public nuisance, or blighted condition shall be governed by the provisions of § 15.8 of this title. To commence such action, an enforcement officer shall issue a compliance order. In addition to the information required by § 15.8 of this title, the compliance order shall contain a statement that the enforcement officer has found: (1) the building to be substandard, with a description of the conditions found to render the building substandard, and/or (2) that the property constitutes a public nuisance with a description of the conditions that constitute the public nuisance, and/or (3) that the property contains a blighted condition with a description of such conditions.
(Ord. 1074, passed 7-18-2023)