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Home My WebLink About4301-05/26/1998 BLACK HAWK COUNTY IOWA:SS �; Misc Filed for record Dec 23 1 4.E8 19 98 at 4:00 P .M. and recordedT n Book 332 • MARGIN of isc Page 791 • PROOF Ctp.„&e.e44.1,COMPIR Recorder � �. FEE 1-15.00/ CITY OF WATERLOO CLERK/AUDITOR ORDINANCE NO. 4301 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE 1993 CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF WATERLOO, IOWA, BY ADDING SECTION 19-29, POSTING OF SIGNS INDICATING SUBSTANDARD HOUSING, OF CHAPTER 19, HOUSING. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WATERLOO, IOWA, as follows : That Section 19-29, Posting of Signs Indicating Substandard Housing, of Chapter 19, Housing, is hereby enacted as follows : Sec. 19-29. Posting of Signs Indicating Substandard Housing (a) The following definitions shall apply for purposes of this Section 19-29 . (1) A "Housing Inspector" is an officer functioning under the authority of the Fire Chief who performs inspections of all buildings or portions thereof that are used, or designed or intended to be used, for human habitation to ensure compliance of such buildings with the Housing Code. (2) "Substandard property" is any property that the Fire Chief finds to be in substantial violation of the Housing Code . (3) An "owner of record" is the legal title holder of the property as shown by documents on file at the office of the Black Hawk County Recorder, or any person or entity utilizing a trade name, fictitious business name, or assumed name through which the legal title holder transacts business. (4) A "Holder of an interest" is any person or entity owning, directly or indirectly, a beneficial interest in at least 10 percent of the total ownership interest of an owner of record as shown by documents on file at the office of the Housing Inspector or Fire Chief as shown on application for rental property licensing. (b) Notice to owner of record. Upon determination that a property is a substandard property, the Fire Chief shall notify the owner of record of the property of the defects . In the discretion of the Fire Chief, said notice may also be delivered to the holder or any of the deedholders . The notice may require the owner of record of the property or the holder of an interest to complete the required repairs, improvements, or cleanup within 30 days, or such longer time as the Fire Chief may state in the notice. The notice may require that any building or part thereof be vacated within the time stated and not reoccupied until the required repairs, improvements, or cleanup have been completed, inspected, and approved by the Fire Chief . (c) Service of notice. Service of notice described in Section 19-29 shall be by personal service or by certified mail to the owner of record or the holder of an interest at his or her last-known address as recorded at the Treasurer of Black Hawk County. When contact cannot be made at the last-known address, service shall be accomplished by posting a copy of the notice in a conspicuous place upon the substandard property. Said notice BOCK 332F.7:791 Ordinance No. 4301 Page 2 shall be dated and signed by the official posting it . The period designated in the notice within which the owner of record or holder of an interest must comply shall commence as of the date said person is personally served or the date said which ever first occurs and person receives the notice by certified mail or first refuses to receive the notice by certified mail . If service is made by posting, the compliance period shall begin seven days following the date of posting. (d) Posting of sign indicating noncompliance. If the defect stated in the notice have not been corrected, inspected, and approved within the period designated in the notice and no longer period has been allowed by the Fire Chief, the Fire Chief may cause to be posted as set out in this ordinance a sign reading substantially as follows : SUBSTANDARD PROPERTY. THE OWNER (name and address as shown by the tax records of the Black Hawk County Treasurer) HAS NOT MAINTAINED THIS PROPERTY, AND IS THEREFORE, IN VIOLATION OF THE WATERLOO HOUSING CODE. Said sign shall contain such additional warnings or information as, in the opinion of the Fire Chief, are expedient . Said sign shall be posted on the property within the city right-of-way, or within the city right-of-way as close to the property as is possible . Said sign shall remain posted until the required repairs, improvements, or cleanup have been completed, inspected, and approved by the Fire Chief, or until an agreement has been reached between the City and the owner of record or holder of an interest to correct such violations by a specified date all at City' s discretion. (e) Unauthorized removal of sign. Removal of the sign described in Section 19-29, Sub. Sec. 4 without the authorization of the Fire Chief is a municipal infraction and shall be punished accordingly. INTRODUCED: May 26, 1998 PASSED 1ST CONSIDERATION: May 26 . 1998 PASSED 2ND CONSIDERATION: May 26, 1998 PASSED 3RD CONSIDERATION: May 26, 1998 PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Waterloo, Iowa, on the 26th day of May, 1998, and approved by the Mayor on the 28th day of May, 1998 . ►, = , ! John Roo f, Mayor ATTEST: k p A / - e Nancy Eck t, City Clerk BOOT{ 332P1rE7D2 Ordinance No. 4301 Page 3 CERTIFICATE I, Nancy Eckert, City Clerk of the City of Waterloo, Iowa, do hereby certify that the preceding is a true and complete copy of Ordinance No. 4301, as passed and adopted by the Council of the City of Waterloo, Iowa, on the 26th day of May, 1998 . Witness my hand and seal of office this 28th day of May, 1998 . // Nancy Eck/t, City Clerk SEAL BOOK 332 PAH 793 • FORM 1 I T. STATE OF IOWA, SS I do solemnly swear that the annexed copy of legal City of Warerl nn Black Hawk County) Ordinance 4301 ORDINANCE NO.4301 AN MENDING THE011 93 ACODE NCE AOF ORDI- NANCES OF THE CITY OF WATERLOO, BY SECTION 19-29, i'OST NG ADDING OF SUBSTAN- DARDSIGNS INDICATHOUNGIN SG OF CHAPTER , 19,HOUSING. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF notice was published in the tVuterloo-CC(lcfr Fulls Courier, a dally newspaper printed in WATERLOO,IOWA,as follows: That Section 19-29,Posting of ' Signs Indicating Substandard Hous- Waterloo, Black Ilawk County, Iowa, once commencing on the 10th ing,of Chapter 19, Housing, is hereby enacted as follows: Sec.19-9. Posting of Signs Indi- I ) eollvnnnuday of aThSubstandard 19 September I apply for purposes of this Section 98 in the name of (I) A'Housing Inspector' is an offi- cer rfumeoni functioning a who pert' said newspaper, and that the annexed rate of advertised is the regular legal rate of said forms inspections of all buildings or portions thereof that are used,or u deigned or intended nce dednooebe unsu red, newspaper, and that the following is a correct bill for publishing said notice. forcompliance of such buildings with the Housing Code. (2) 'Substandard property' is any Printer's Bill $ 41.96 property that the Fire Chief finds to be in substantial violation of the Housing Code. 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