Princeville — Title 15 Ch. 15.24 Property Maintenance and Occupancy Code § 15.24.110

A. General. Whenever a building, structure or dwelling has been unoccupied or otherwise vacant for a period of one hundred twenty (120) days, the code enforcement officer shall serve written notice upon the owner or operator, lessee, or mortgagee that the building, structure or dwelling may be designated as abandoned within thirty (30) days after service of a notice.
B. Method of Service. Notice shall be given by personal service or by mailing a copy thereof to the owner or operator, lessee or mortgagee of the abandoned building, structure or dwelling, by certified mail, return receipt requested, at his or her last known address. In the event that notice by mail is ineffective, a copy of the notice required by this Section shall be posted in a conspicuous place on or about the suspected abandoned building, structure or dwelling.
C. Required Contents. Such notice shall inform the owner or operator, lessee or mortgagee of the suspected abandoned building, structure or dwelling that, unless the dwelling unit is reoccupied within thirty (30) days after service of the notice required by this Section, the building, structure or dwelling shall be designated as abandoned, be posted as such, and be subject to reinspection and the issuance of an occupancy permit in the manner provided herein.
D. Effect of Notice. If an abandoned building structure or dwelling is not reoccupied within thirty (30) days after service of the notice required by subsection C of this Section, the building, structure or dwelling shall be designated as abandoned.
E. Designation of Abandoned. Whenever any building, structure or dwelling is subject to designation as abandoned, the code enforcement officer shall carry out such designation in compliance with the following procedures:
1. Notice and Placarding. The code enforcement officer shall serve notice of the designation of the building, structure or dwelling as abandoned upon the last owner, operator, lessee or mortgagee. Service shall be by certified mail, return receipt requested, and by posting a placard at each entrance of the affected building, structure or dwelling. Where the identity or whereabouts of the owner, operator, lessee or mortgagee cannot be ascertained, notice shall be mailed to the person or persons to whom the last tax bill was mailed.
2. Contents. The notices and placards required in subsection E.1 of this Section, shall state that the affected building, structure or dwelling is by such placard declared to be abandoned within the meaning of this Chapter, and shall further state that the inspection of the abandoned building, structure or dwelling by the code enforcement officer shall be required prior to occupancy by an owner, operator or lessee and that it is unlawful to re-occupy an abandoned building, structure or dwelling.
3. Placard Removal. It is unlawful to remove or deface the placard required by subsection E.1 of this Section, from any building, structure or dwelling which has been designated as abandoned, except as provided in subsection F of this Section.
F. Effect of Designation--Abandoned Building, Structure, or Dwelling.
1. Any building, structure or dwelling designated as abandoned shall be subject to inspection by the code enforcement officer prior to occupancy of the building, structure or dwelling.
2. No building, structure or dwelling which has been designated as abandoned in accordance with subsection E of this Section, shall again be used for any purpose until and unless written approval is secured from, and the placard so designating the building, structure or dwelling as abandoned is removed by the code enforcement officer who shall remove such placard only after the building, structure or dwelling has been inspected.
3. The code enforcement officer shall not issue an occupancy permit for the abandoned building, structure or dwelling until it has been inspected and is found to comply in all respects with the requirements of this Chapter.
G. Fee for Inspection of Abandoned Building, Structure or Dwelling; Occupancy Permit. The fee for inspection of an abandoned building, structure or dwelling shall be fifty dollars ($50.00) per inspection, paid to the Village of Princeville. This fee shall include the associated issuance of an occupancy permit if the building, structure or dwelling passes inspection as meeting the requirements of the Village Code.
H. Rehabitable Buildings. The code enforcement officer may declare a building, structure or dwelling rehabitable based upon a written inspection report, which includes the following:
1. The building, structure or dwelling under consideration does not conform to the present requirements of the Village Code, but can be made to conform to the requirements of these codes through rehabilitation.
2. The primary structural elements are basically sound and will require a minimum amount of repair or replacement to meet the requirements of the Village Code.
3. The building, structure or dwelling can be made to meet the requirements of the Village Code without continuing an existing hazardous condition.
I. Any repair, alteration or replacement of structural elements or equipment in a building, structure or dwelling which may be required by the provisions of this Chapter, shall be done in accordance with the applicable sections of the maintenance code and all other applicable Village codes and ordinances.