1351.03 DUTIES OF BUILDING INSPECTOR.
The Building Inspector shall:
    (a)    Inspect or cause to be inspected all public buildings, schools, halls, churches, theaters, hotels, tenements and commercial, manufacturing or loft buildings for the purpose of determining whether any conditions exist which render such places dangerous buildings within the terms of Section 1351.01.
    (b)    Inspect any building, wall or structure about which complaints are filed by any person to the effect that a building, wall or structure is or may be existing in violation of this chapter.
   (c)    Inspect any building, wall or structure reported, as hereinafter provided for, by the Divisions of Fire or Police as probably existing in violation of the terms of this chapter.
   (d)    Notify in writing by certified mail, return receipt requested, the owner, occupant, lessee, mortgagee, agent and all other persons having an interest in such building, as shown by the land records of the Recorder of Lorain County, of any building found by him to be a dangerous building within the standards set forth in Sections 1351.01 and 1351.03, that:
      (1)    The owner must vacate, repair or demolish such building in accordance with the terms of the notice and this chapter;
      (2)   The occupant or lessee must vacate such building or may have it repaired in accordance with the notice and remain in possession;
      (3)    The mortgagee, agent or other person having an interest in such building, as shown by the land records of the Recorder of Lorain County, may, at his own risk, repair, vacate or demolish such building or have such work or act done.
Any person notified under this subsection to repair, vacate or demolish any building shall be given such reasonable time, not exceeding fifteen days, to commence or have commenced the work or act required by the notice provided for herein.
   (e)    Set forth in the notice provided for in subsection (d) hereof a description of the building or structure deemed unsafe, a statement of the particulars which make the building or structure dangerous and an order requiring the same to be put in such condition as to comply with the terms of this chapter within such length of time, not exceeding sixty days, as is reasonable.
   (f)    Place a notice on all dangerous buildings reading as follows: "This building has been found to be a dangerous building by the Building Inspector. This notice is to remain on this building until the building is repaired, vacated or demolished in accordance with a notice which has been given the owner, occupant, lessee, mortgagee or agent of this building, and all other persons having an interest in this building as shown by the land records of the Recorder of Lorain County, Ohio. It is unlawful to remove this notice until such notice is complied with." (Ord. 83-66. Passed 12-27-66; Ord. 51-83. Passed 5-10-83.)