[Ord. 5624, passed 3-18-1957]
The following are declared to be a public nuisance and shall
be abated by the owners thereof within 30 days after written notice
has been given to the owner or the agent of such owner, by any officer
of the City directed thereto by the Director of Code Enforcement:
(a) Any structure which is unoccupied for a continuous period of 15 days
under the following conditions:
(1)
Having any of the windows or doors in the structure broken out
and either boarded up or left open.
(2)
Having any of the roof, weatherboarding or other outside part
of the structure broken off, dilapidated or open so that access can
be had to the building without the use of a key, or so that rain,
snow, animals, vermin and other deleterious substances or things are
not excluded from the building or any part thereof.
(b) Any structure occupied by persons:
(1)
When the structure is not supplied with sanitary sewer service,
laundry and bath facilities, and other sanitary services which are
required by the laws of the Commonwealth and City ordinances, and
have not been inspected and approved by the Plumbing Inspector.
(2)
When there are not sufficient rooms and sanitary beds to provide
sleeping quarters for the occupants or tenants in the building within
the requirements of the Housing Code and sanitary laws of the Commonwealth
and the City.
(c) Any structure:
(1)
Which is abandoned, dilapidated, unsafe, unsanitary or uninhabitable
in the opinion of the Director of Code Enforcement, and is left so
that it may be entered without the use of a key or by unauthorized
persons or trespassers.
(2)
Which, in the opinion of the Director of Code Enforcement, is
not fit for human habitation.
[Ord. 5624, passed 3-18-1957]
Any owner or property in the City who maintains any nuisance
as herein defined, and fails to abate the same within 30 days from
the date when he receives written notice, as herein provided, shall
be guilty of a violation of this article.
Where any action or prosecution is commenced under this article,
charging the owner of any property with a violation on a particular
date, a maintenance of the same nuisance by the owner one week or
more after that date shall constitute a new and separate violation
of the provisions of this article, and the owner shall be subject
to fine and costs for each week he permits the nuisance to remain
unabated.
Whoever violates any provision of this article shall be punished
as provided in Section 101.99 of the Administrative Code.