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115 Real Propertv Maintenance Code 1363.99 (b) Annual Review of Code Provisions and Operations. The Property Maintenance Officer shall, in the month of January of each year, review with the Fire Chief, the City Engineer, and the Director of Law the procedure and operation of this Code, and report to Council on or before March 15: (1) Any recommended amendment, addition or modification of a provision of this Code consonant with the field experience of the personnel charged with enforcement; (2) A summary of the time sequence enforcement experience indicating the number of violations abated, the number of cases processed in the Municipal Court, the number of inspections made and such other and further pertinent information as will provide Council with an annual account of progress in securing the standards required by this Code; and (3) Any further recommendation as to how this Code and the procedures and operations hereunder can be improved. (Ord. 2008-44. Passed 5-20-08.) 1363.11 STATUS REPORTS FOR USE BY INTERESTED PARTIES. (a) Application for Status Report. Where, in lieu of an inspection, an owner, operator, occupant, lessee, bona fide prospective purchaser, mortgagee or bona fide prospective occupant request a status report as to whether or not there are any known violations presently pending on certain premises, upon payment of the fee prescribed herein and the written request, a copy of any notice or order on any violation then pending shall be sent to the applicant. (b) Significance and Scope of Status Report. No status report under subsection (a) hereof shall be construed as providing a defense against any violation of this Code or any other ordinance of the City which may be discovered thereafter, whether or not the condition or violation existed at the time of any such status report. The status report is provided as a convenience to the public and shall not constiiute a limitation on the full enforcement of this Code. The status report shall include only such matters as are embraced in this Code. (c) Status Report Fee. The fee for any status report or copy thereof under subsection (a) hereof shall be four dollars ($4.00). (d) Liabilitv of City. Neither the City nor any of its agents shall be liable to any owner or subsequent purchaser of real property for violations of this Code. (Ord. 95-33. Passed 7-5-95.) 1363.99 PENALTY; EQUITABLE REMEDIES. (a) Whoever fails to make the payment provided in Section 1363.07(f) due to a violation of 1363.07(b)(1)(C), 1363.07(b)(1)(D), 1363.07(b)(1)(F) and 1363.07(b)(2)(A)(1) shall be guilty of an unclassified misdemeanor. If the citation for such violations is not paid within a seventy-two hour period as provided for pursuant to Section 1363.08(e), then the Building Department shall issue at least one (1) written communication to the owner of the property at the address shown in the office of the County Auditor and advise the owner of the citation. Such written communication shall be forwarded by regular mail and shall further advise that any unpaid citation will be forwarded to the Rocky River Municipal Court, by a date specific, not less than ten (10) days from the date of such correspondence, for further proceedings and prosecution of the violation, subject to the imposition of Court costs and a fine not to exceed one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00). 2008 Replacement