(A) General. After any order of the building official or the City Council made pursuant to this chapter shall have become final, no person to whom any such order is directed shall fail, neglect, or refuse to obey any such order.
(B) Failure to obey order. If, after any order of the building official or City Council made pursuant to this chapter has become final, the person to whom such order is directed shall fail, neglect, or refuse to obey such order, the building official may institute any appropriate action to abate such building as a public nuisance.
(C) Failure to commence work. Whenever the required repair or demolition does not commence within thirty days after any final notice and order issued under this code becomes effective:
(1) The building official shall cause the building described in such notice and order to be vacated by posting at each entrance thereto a notice of the form set forth in § 97.07(G).
(2) No person shall occupy any building which has been posted as specified in this section. No person shall remove or deface any such notice so posted until the repairs, demolition or removal ordered by the building official, or the City Council as the case may be, have been completed.
(3) The building official may, in addition to any other remedy herein provided, cause the building to be repaired to the extent necessary to correct the conditions which render the building dangerous as set forth in the notice and order; or, if the notice and order require demolition, to cause the building to be sold and demolished, or demolished and the materials, rubble, and debris thereof removed and the lot cleaned. Any such repair or demolition work shall be accomplished and the costs thereof paid and recovered in the manner hereinafter provided in this chapter. Any surplus realized from the sale of any such building, or from the demolition thereof, over and above the cost of demolition and of cleaning the lot, shall be paid over to the person or persons lawfully entitled thereto. Nothing stated herein shall prevent the building official from causing the building to be demolished by fire.
(D) Extension of time to perform work. Upon receipt of an application from the person required to conform to the order and by agreement of such person to comply with the order if allowed additional time, the building official may grant an extension of time, not to exceed an additional 120 days, within which to complete the repair, rehabilitation or demolition, if the building official determines that such an extension of time will not create or perpetuate a situation imminently dangerous to life or property. The building official’s authority to extend time is limited to the physical repair, rehabilitation or demolition of the premises and will not in any way affect the time to appeal the notice and order.
(E) Interference with repair or demolition work prohibited. No person shall obstruct, impede or interfere with any officer, employee, contractor or authorized representative of the city or with any person who owns or holds any estate or interest in any building which has been ordered repaired, vacated or demolished under the provisions of this chapter, or with any person to whom such building has been lawfully sold pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, whenever such officer, employee, contractor or authorized representative of the city, a person having an interest or estate in such building or structure, or a purchaser is engaged in the work of repairing, vacating and repairing, or demolishing any such building, pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, or in performing any necessary act preliminary to or incidental to such work or authorized or directed pursuant to this chapter.
(Ord. 542, passed 11-10-2014; Ord. 547, passed 4-13-2015) Penalty, see § 97.99