(a) "Nonresidential property" shall be defined as a property with an assigned use classification of commercial, institutional, industrial, or office.
(b) "Vacant, vacant building, vacancy, and vacant unit of a building" shall be defined for the purposes of this chapter, as a building, or unit of a building, which is not occupied by its owner, lessee or other person in lawful possession, or at which substantially all lawful business operations have ceased.
(c) "Unoccupied" shall be defined for the purposes of this chapter as a building or unit of a building in which all lawful business operations have ceased.
(d) "Open foreclosure action" shall be defined for purposes of this chapter as an active legal proceeding in a court oflaw that bars or extinguishes a mortgagor's right ofredeeming a mortgaged estate in real property but does not include a foreclosure for tax delinquency purposes that is brought by the county government.
(e) "Building Commissioner" shall be defined for purposes of this chapter as the Commissioner of the Municipality's Division of Building, Zoning and Housing.
(f) "Municipality" shall be defined for purposes of this chapter as the City of Richmond Heights, Ohio.
(Ord. 65-2022. Passed 5-24-22.)