Whenever the Zoning Inspector, upon the investigation of the Union County Building Inspector, determines that a building or structure is a dangerous building or structure as defined in Section 1311.01, or if unoccupied is inadequately secured from ready entrance by unauthorized persons, he shall:
(a) Affix to such building or structure or portion thereof, on the door or entrance thereto a placard on which is to be printed a declaration that such building or structure or portion thereof is unfit for human habitation or occupancy and ordered vacated. No person shall deface or remove the placard from any building or structure or part thereof which has been condemned as unfit for human habitation or occupancy and placarded as such. The Zoning Inspector shall remove such placard whenever the defect or defects upon which the condemnation and placarding section were based have been eliminated.
(b) Notify the owner, occupant, lessee, mortgagee and any other person having an interest in the building or structure as shown by the records of Union County, Ohio, of any of the building or structures found by him to be a dangerous building or structure within the standards set forth in this chapter. The owner must vacate, repair or demolish the building or structure in accordance with the terms of the notice and this chapter. The occupant or lessee must vacate the building or structure or, with the consent of the owner, may have it repaired in accordance with the notice and order and remain in possession. The mortgagee or other person having an interest in the building or structure, as shown by the records of Union County, Ohio, may, at his own risk, vacate and repair or demolish the building or
structure, or have such work or act done. The notice provided for in subsection (b) hereof shall include a provision that upon failure to comply with the order therein to vacate, repair or demolish, the Village may provide for the vacation, securing, removal repair, rehabilitation or demolition of the subject property, total cost for which may become a lien upon the land and/or may be recovered from the owner.
(c) Service of the notice shall be made in accordance with Section 1311.09.
(Ord. 35.16. Passed 7-13-87.)