§ 92-4. Duties of City Engineer.  


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  • The City Engineer shall:
    A. 
    Inspect any building, wall or structure about which complaints are filed by any person to the effect that a building wall or structure is or may be existing in violation of this chapter.
    B. 
    Inspect any building, wall or structure reported (as hereinafter provided for) by the Fire or Police Departments of this city as probably existing in violation of the terms of this chapter.
    C. 
    Notify personally or in writing the owner or some one of the owner's executors, legal representatives, agents, lessees or another person having a vested or contingent interest in the property, by registered mail, addressed to the last known address, if any, of the owner or some one of the owner's executors, legal representatives, agents, lessees or other person having a vested or contingent interest in the same, as shown by the records of the Assessor or in the office of the County Clerk, of any building found by him to be an unsafe building within the standards set forth in § 92-1 of this chapter.
    (1) 
    The owner must vacate or repair or demolish said building in accordance with the terms of the notice and this chapter.
    (2) 
    The occupant or lessee must vacate said building or may have it repaired in accordance with the notice and remain in possession.
    (3) 
    Any mortgagee, agent or other persons having an interest in said building may at his own risk repair, vacate or demolish said building or have such work or act done, provided that any person notified under this subsection to repair, vacate or demolish any building shall be given such reasonable time, not exceeding 30 days, as may be necessary to do, or have done, the work or act required by the notice provided for herein.
    D. 
    Set forth in the notice provided for in Subsection C hereof a description of the building or structure deemed unsafe, a statement of the particulars which make the building or structure an unsafe building and an order requiring the same to be put in such condition as to comply with the terms of this chapter within such length of time, not exceeding 30 days, as is reasonable.
    E. 
    Report to the Board of Public Service any noncompliance with the notice provided for in Subsections C and D hereof.
    F. 
    Appear at all hearings conducted by the Board of Public Service and testify as to the condition of unsafe buildings.
    G. 
    Place a notice on all unsafe buildings reading as follows: "This building has been found to be an unsafe building by this City Engineer. This notice is to remain on this building until it is repaired, vacated or demolished in accordance with the notice which has been given the owner, or some one of the owner's executors, legal representatives, agents, lessees or another person having a vested or contingent interest in the property, by registered mail, addressed to the last known address, if any, of the owner or some one of the owner's executors, legal representatives, agents, lessees or other person having vested or contingent interest in the same, as shown by the records of the Assessor or in the office of the County Clerk, of any building found by me to be an unsafe building within the standards set forth in § 92-1 of this chapter. It is unlawful to remove this notice until such notice is complied with."