Whenever the city administrator or his designee has inspected
or caused to be inspected any structure and has found and determined
that such structure is a substandard structure, he may commence proceedings
to require the vacation, relocation of occupants, securing, repair,
removal or demolition of the structure.
(1999 Code, sec. 26-331)
Service of the notice specified in section
3.03.152 shall be made upon all persons entitled to service, either personally or by mailing a copy of such notice by certified mail, postage prepaid, return receipt requested, to each person at his address as it appears in the official records of the county clerk, any appraisal district records, or as known to the city administrator. If such certified letter is not deliverable as addressed, service may be by publication two times within ten consecutive days in a newspaper of general circulation within the county. If no address of any such person so appears, or is known to the city administrator, a copy of the notice shall be so mailed, addressed to such person at the address of the building involved in the proceedings.
The failure of any such person to receive such notice shall
not affect the validity of any proceedings taken under this article.
Delivery by certified mail in the manner provided in this section
shall be effective service on the date of mailing.
(1999 Code, sec. 26-334)
Proof of service of the notice required by this division shall
be certified at or near the time of service by a written declaration
under penalty of perjury executed by the person effecting service,
declaring the time, date and manner in which service was made. The
declaration, together with any receipt card returned in acknowledgment
of receipt by certified mail, shall be affixed to the copy of the
notice retained by the city administrator.
(1999 Code, sec. 26-335)