(A) If the owner fails to comply with an order to repair, alter or improve or to vacate and close the dwelling, the Inspector may cause the dwelling to be repaired, altered or improved or to be vacated and closed.
(B) The Inspector may cause to be posted on the main entrance of any dwelling so closed a placard with the following words:
“This building is unfit for human habitation; the use or occupation of this building for human habitation is prohibited and unlawful.”
(C) Occupation of a building posted in accordance with division (B), above, shall constitute a misdemeanor.
(D) If the owner fails to comply with an order to remove or demolish the dwelling, the Inspector may cause such dwelling to be removed or demolished.
(E) The duties of the Inspector set forth in this section shall not be exercised until the Board of Commissioners of the town shall have by ordinance ordered the Inspector to proceed to effectuate the purpose of this chapter with respect to the particular property or properties which the Inspector shall have found to be unfit for human habitation and which property or properties shall be described in the ordinance. No such ordinance shall be adopted to require demolition of a dwelling until the owner has first been given a reasonable opportunity to bring it into conformity with the Housing Code. This chapter shall be recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds in the county, and shall be indexed in the name of the property owner in the grantor index.
(F) A reasonable time opportunity to bring a dwelling into conformity with the Housing Code shall be deemed to be 120 days from date that the Inspector notifies the owner in writing, for example, the date of the postmark.
(Prior Code, § 150.38) (Ord. passed 10-1-1984) Penalty, see § 150.99