(a) If the Zoning Administrator or designee examines or causes to be examined a building or structure or portion thereof and determines it to be a dangerous building, the Zoning Administrator or designee shall provide notice to the owner and lienholders of the property.
(b) Notice of violation and order.
(1) The Zoning Administrator or designee shall give written notice to the record title owner(s) and lienholder(s) of the property by regular 1st Class U.S. mail and post signs on the dangerous building in accordance with Section 1328.09 of the Zoning Administrator's or designee's condemnation order and/or designation of the building as a dangerous building. The violation and order notice must include the Zoning Administrator's or designee's intention to either require repair or demolish the dangerous building under Section 1328.11. The violation and order notice must also include the name, address, and phone number of the office of the Zoning Administrator, the address of the dangerous building, the name and last known address of the record title owner of the dangerous building, and the date by which the record title owner(s) must contact the Zoning Administrator in writing. If the Zoning Administrator's or designee's order requires repair of the dangerous building, the notice must include a list of repairs to be made and a date by which the repairs must be completed. The Notice of Violation shall include written notice of any action taken pursuant to Section 1328.05.
(2) Unless another deadline is established under this chapter or by the written notice of violation and order, the record title owner(s) shall contact the Zoning Administrator in writing within fourteen (14) days of the date the notice of violation and order is mailed.
(3) Unless another deadline is established under this chapter or by the written notice of violation and order, the record title owner(s) shall comply with the notice of violation and order requirement(s) to either repair or demolish the dangerous building within thirty-five (35) days of the date the notice of violation and order is mailed.
(4) If any emergency exists, written notice may be given by other means fifteen (15) days prior to demolition.
(5) If the record title owner(s) fails to contact the Zoning Administrator by the date provided on the written notice, or the notice of violation and order is returned undeliverable by the United States Postal Service (USPS), the Zoning Administrator or designee shall cause the notice of violation and order to be made by publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the county. The publication shall be published at least once a week for three (3) successive weeks and shall contain the name, address, and phone number of the office of the Zoning Administrator, the address of the dangerous building, the name and last known address of the record title owner of the dangerous building, the name and last known address of any and all lienholders of the dangerous building, a summary statement that the building has been determined to be dangerous and that the building must be repaired or demolished, and that the record title owner is required to contact the Zoning Administrator or designee and comply with the notice of violation and order within fifteen (15) days after the last publication.
(6) The Zoning Administrator or designee may grant an extension of time for compliance with the notice of violation and order upon the record title owner's written request and for good cause shown.
(c) It shall be unlawful for the owner of any dwelling unit or structure who has received a notice pursuant to paragraph (b), or whom a notice of violation has been served, to sell, transfer, mortgage, lease, or otherwise dispose of property to another until the provisions of the notice of violation and order have been complied with, or until such owner shall first furnish the grantee, transferee, mortgagee, or lessee, acknowledging the receipt of such notice of violation issued by the Zoning Administrator or designee, and furnish the Zoning Administrator with a signed and notarized statement from the grantee, transferee, mortgagee, or lessee, acknowledging the receipt of such notice of violation and fully accepting the responsibility, without condition unless agreed to by the Zoning Administrator, for making the corrections or repairs required by such notice of violation. (Ord. 116-2021. Passed 11-11-21.)