The following sections of the 2015 International Fire Code are amended to read as follows.
(A) Section 101.1.
These regulations shall be known as the Fire Code of the City of Wyandotte, Michigan, hereinafter referred to as “this code”.
(B) Section 109.2. Owner/occupant responsibility.
Correction and abatement of violations of this code shall be the responsibility of the owner, or the owner’s authorized agent, where an occupant creates, or allows to be created, hazardous conditions in violation of this code, the occupant shall be held responsible for the abatement of such hazardous conditions and in the event of an emergency situation arising from the failure to abate will be liable for all reasonable costs incurred by the city in dealing with said emergency.
(C) Section 109.4. Violation penalties.
Persons who shall violate a provision of this code or shall fail to comply with any of the requirements thereof or who shall erect, alter, repair or do work in violation of the approved construction documents or directive of the fire code official, or of a permit or certificate used under provisions of this code, shall be responsible for a municipal civil infraction whether by admission or by court determination and is subject to all of the following fines and costs:
A) A civil fine of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) and not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00); and
B) The Judge or Magistrate shall summarily tax and determine the costs of the action (which are not limited to the costs taxable in ordinary civil actions.) and may include all expenses direct and indirect, to which the city has been put in connection with the municipal civil infraction, up to the entry of judgment, expenses include but are not limited to: Time of authorized city official, time of city attorney, witness and mileage fees and postage. Costs may not be less than nine dollars ($9.00) or more than five hundred dollars ($500.00). Costs shall be payable to the city general fund except as otherwise provided by law.
C) Each day that a violation of this code continues after due notice has been served shall be deemed a separate offense.
(D) Section 111.4. Failure to Comply.
Any person who shall continue any work after having been served with a stop work order, except such work as that person is directed to perform to remove a violation or unsafe condition, shall be liable to a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) and not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00).
(Prior Code, § 11-27) (Ord. 1125, passed 7-16-2001; Ord. 1378, passed 12-10-2012; Ord. 1405, passed 11-10-2014; Ord. 1447, passed 4-10-2017)