§ 4711.03. Neglected properties to be registered.

A.

An owner is required to register in the Registry of Neglected Properties those parcels of real property:

1.

Upon failure to abate a public nuisance as required by a notice of violation issued by a code enforcement officer, a court order or an order of the safe neighborhood review board; and

2.

On which a vacant building, buildings, or structure existed at the time the notice or order required such nuisance to be abated.

B.

Owners of real property may petition to have a property removed from the Registry of Neglected Properties in the following manner:

1.

The owner shall provide evidence that the public nuisance(s) required to be abated by a notice of violation issued by a code enforcement officer, a court order or of the safe neighborhood review board, have been abated. Such evidence shall be submitted in writing on a form provided for that purpose, and

2.

The owner can verify there is no active safe neighborhood review board or court action associated with enforcement of the nuisance issues, and

3.

A minimum time period of six (6) months has elapsed since the property was first registered.

(Ord. 0947-04 § 1 (part); Ord. 897-05 § 6 (part).)