(a) Should the Property Maintenance Board conclude that a public nuisance exists and that abatement is necessary, the Property Maintenance Board shall grant the Code Official authority to enter on the premises and abate the nuisance. In abating such nuisance, the Code Official may call on any department, division, or bureau of the City for whatever assistance may be necessary to abate such public nuisance as aforesaid, or may, by private contract, abate or lessen the severity of such public nuisance or take such other action as may be deemed appropriate, and the cost of the contract will be paid for from City funds authorized to be used for that purpose and thereafter charged to the owner. No abatement action by the Code Official shall take place until at least thirty-five after the decision of the Property Maintenance Board.
(b) If the owner of a premises requests a permit as provided for in Section 1484.06(h) but fails to fully abate the nuisance within ninety days for a building permit or thirty days for a demolition permit, the Code Official may abate the nuisance as provided by the Property Maintenance Board as provided in division (a) of this section.
(c) A structure may be razed and removed, either through an available public agency or by contract or arrangement with private persons.
(d) When any structure has been ordered razed and removed, the governing body or other designated officer under said contract or arrangement aforesaid shall have the right to sell the salvage and valuable materials at the highest price obtainable. The net proceeds of such sale, after deducting the expenses of such razing and removal, shall be promptly remitted to the property owner with a report of such sale or transaction, including the items of expense and the amounts deducted. If such a surplus does not remain to be turned over, the report shall so state.
(Ord. 19-27. Passed 12-2-19.)