(A) Should the Code Enforcement Authority determine that any building or structure within the incorporated limits of the city is a dangerous building, or is unoccupied and unsecured, or is occupied only by persons who do not have a right of possession of the building, he or she shall cause the building to be secured.
(B) Before the 11th day after the date the building is secured, the municipality shall give notice to the owner by:
(1) Personally serving the owner with written notice; or
(2) Depositing the notice in the U.S. mail addressed to the owner at the owner’s post office address; or
(3) Publishing the notice at least twice within a ten-day period in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the building is located if personal service cannot be obtained and the owner’s post office address is unknown; or
(4) Posting the notice on or near the front door of the building if personal service cannot be obtained and the owner’s post office address is unknown.
(C) The notice must contain:
(1) Identification, which is not required to be a legal description, of the building and the property on which it is located;
(2) A description of the violation of the city standards that is present at the building;
(3) A statement that the city will secure or has secured, as the case may be, the building; and
(4) An explanation of the owner’s entitlement to request a hearing about any matter relating to the municipality’s securing of the building.
(D) The Board of Adjustments and Appeals shall conduct a hearing at which any of the responsible parties may testify and present witnesses and written information about any matter relating to the city’s securing of the building, if, within 30 days after the date the Code Enforcement Authority secures or causes to be secured the building, a responsible party files a written request for the hearing. The Board of Adjustments and Appeals shall conduct the hearing within 20 days after the date the request is filed with the city.
(E) The city shall impose a lien against the land on which the building stands, unless it is a homestead, to secure the payment of the cost of securing the building. Promptly after the imposition of the lien, the city shall file for record, in recordable form in the official public records of the county, a written notice of the imposition of the lien. The notice shall contain a legal description of the land.
(Ord. 95-03, passed 3-13-1995; Ord. 2012-008, passed 10-16-2012)