(A) Whenever the Chief of Police, the Code Enforcement Officer or the Fire Marshal shall be of the opinion that any building or structure in the city is a dangerous building, he or she shall file a written statement to this effect with the City Clerk. The Clerk shall thereupon cause written notice to be served upon the owner thereof, and upon the occupant thereof, if any, by certified mail or by personal service. Such notice shall state that the building has been declared to be in a dangerous condition, and that such dangerous condition must be removed or remedied by repairing or altering the building or by demolishing it; and that the condition must be remedied at once. Such notice may be in the following terms:
“To ___________ (owner-occupant of premises) of the premises known and described as ____________________________________
You are hereby notified that ___________ (describe building) on the premises above mentioned has been condemned as a nuisance and a dangerous building after inspection by __________________.
The causes for this decision are____________ ______________________________________ (here insert the facts as to the dangerous conditions).
You must remedy this condition or demolish the building immediately, or the City will proceed to do so.”
(B) If the person receiving the notice has not complied therewith or taken an appeal from the determination of the officer or employee finding that a dangerous building exists, within ten days from the time when this notice is served upon such person by personal service or certified mail, the Code Enforcement Officer, the City Engineer or the Fire Marshal may, upon orders of the Mayor and City Council, proceed to remedy the condition or demolish the dangerous building.
(1975 Code, § 7.07)