34-79 New 1305.521 Housing - repair/demo unsafe structures

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-2- (e) Duty to Inform Purchaser. It shall be the duty of any owner or person in control of such structure who has received a notice of the order to repair or demolish to inform any purchaser thereof of such notice and order. No owner or person in control of such structure shall transfer to any vendee any interest in such structure after receiving such notice and order without first providing the vendee with a copy of such notice and order. : (f) Disregard of Notice and Order. If proper service.of notice of nuisance and order to repair or demolish is made in accordance with Section 1305.521(d), and the' owner or person in control of said structure fails, neglects or refuses to comply with said notice and order by the date specified therein, the Building Commissione~ shall notify the Board of Building Standards and Building Appeals and the Director of Law of such fact. (g) Notice by Board of Building Standards and Building Appeals. Upon receipt of such notice by the Board of Building Standards and Building Appeals from the Building Commissioner, said Board shall hold and conduct a public hearing' on'the question of the existence of such unsafe structure or public nuisance and on the question of any such failure to comply with such notice and order. Service of notice of the time and place of such public hearing, the questions to be de-' termined therein, and the possible orders resulting therefrom shall be given in accordance with Section 1305.521(d). .. (h) Public Hearing. The Board of Building Standards and Building Appeals shall hold and conduct the public hearing provided for herein at the designated time and place and grant to the owner.or person in control of the structure involved the opportunity to ~how cause why the structure should not be repaired or demolished in accordance with the notice and order of the Building Commissioner.' (i) Standards. The Board of Building Standards and Building Appeal;s, upon hearing all the facts and evidence, shall apply the following standards and shall make a determination and issue finding of fact on the question of the existence of such unsafe structure or public nuisance and on the question of any such failure to gomply with such notice and order. The Board shall issue its decision and shall order any proper action, including demolition, it commands to be taken. (1) All buildings or structures which have any or all of the following defects shall be deemed and are hereby declared to be public nuisances: (a) Those whose interior walls or other vertical structural members list, lean or buckle to such an' extent that a plumb line passing through the center of gravity falls outside of the middle third of its base. (b) Those which, exclusive of the foundation, show thirty-three percent or more, of damage or deterioration of the supporting member of members, or fifty percent of damage or deterioration of the nonsupporting enclosi.ng member of members of outside walls or coveFing...