(A) Where pursuant to an order of the Official or, after a hearing, the City Manager, an unsafe building or structure has been repaired or demolished and the materials and debris removed or, as the case may be, is about to be repaired or demolished and removed, the Official shall sell, or if there appears to him or her to be a substantial doubt whether the gross proceeds of sale will exceed the expenses of sale, shall otherwise dispose of the materials and debris. The sale shall be at private sale or public auction, as will in the discretion of the Official be likely to realize the largest amount of proceeds after payment of the expenses of sale. The proceeds of sale shall be applied in payment, in the following order, of:
(1) The expenses of sale;
(2) The expenses incurred by the city in the proceedings to have the building or structure determined to be an unsafe building and, as the case maybe, a nuisance and, if a special assessment is to be made, the estimated expense of levying such assessment;
(3) The expense of repair or demolition of the building or structure and removal of the material and debris;
(4) Unpaid general taxes on the building, structure, lot, or tract; and
(5) Unpaid special assessments against the lot or tract.
(B) The balance, if any, of the proceeds shall be paid to interested parties as their interest may appear. If any of such expenses shall have been paid by the city prior to the sale, the proceeds shall be paid into the fund out of which the expenses were paid, to the same extent that they would have been applied in payment of the expenses had the expenses not been paid initially out of the fund.
(Ord. 3805, passed - -2004)