(A) General. After any order of the Building Official or the Board of Appeals made pursuant to this chapter shall have become final, no person to whom any order is directed shall fail, neglect or refuse to obey any order. Any person who fails to comply with any order is guilty of a misdemeanor.
(B) Failure to obey order. If, after any order of the Building Official or Board of Appeals made pursuant to this chapter has become final, the person to whom the order is directed shall fail, neglect or refuse to obey the order the Building Official may:
(1) Cause the person to be prosecuted under division (A) above; or
(2) Institute any appropriate action to abate the building as a public nuisance.
(C) Failure to commence work. Whenever the required repair or demolition is not commenced within 30 days after any final notice and order issued under this chapter becomes effective:
(1) The Building Official shall cause the building described in the notice and order to be vacated by posting at each entrance thereto a notice reading:
DANGEROUS BUILDING
DO NOT OCCUPY
It is a misdemeanor to occupy this building
or to remove or deface this notice.
Building Official, Tillamook County
(2) No person shall occupy any building which has been posted as specified in this division. No person shall remove or deface any notice so posted until the repairs, demolition or removal ordered by the Building Official have been completed and a certificate of occupancy issued pursuant to the provisions of the Building Code.
(3) The Building Official may, in addition to any other remedy herein provided, cause the building to be repaired to the extent necessary to correct the conditions which render the building dangerous as set forth in the notice and order; or, if the notice and order required demolition, to came the building to be sold and demolished or demolished and the materials, rubble and debris therefrom removed and the lot cleaned. Any repair or demolition work shall be accomplished and the cost thereof paid and recovered in the manner hereinafter provided in this chapter. Any surplus realized from the sale of any building, or from the demolition thereof, over and above the cost of demolition and of cleaning the lot, shall be paid over to the person or persons lawfully entitled thereto.
(Ord. 97-342, passed 5-25-2005) Penalty, see § 10.99