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In the event any provision, standard, or requirement of this chapter is found to be in conflict with any provision of any other ordinance or code of the town, the provision, which establishes the higher standard or more stringent requirement for the promotion and protection of the health and safety of the residents of the town’s jurisdiction shall prevail. The North Carolina Building Code, current edition, shall serve as the standard for all alterations, additions, removals, demolitions and other acts of building made or required pursuant to this chapter.
(Ord. passed 11-28-2005; Am. Ord. passed 2-11-2013)
(A) In addition to the conditions, acts or failures to act that constitute violations specified in this chapter above, it shall be unlawful for the owner of any dwelling or dwelling unit to fail, neglect, or refuse to repair, alter, or improve the same, or to vacate and close or vacate and remove or demolish the same, upon order of the Inspector duly made and served as herein provided, within the time specified in such order.
(B) It shall be unlawful for the owner of any dwelling or dwelling unit, with respect to which an order has been issued pursuant to § 153.15, to occupy or permit the occupancy of the same after the time prescribed in such order for its repair, alteration or improvement or its vacation and closing, or vacation and removal or demolition.
(Ord. passed 11-28-2005; Am. Ord. passed 2-11-2013)