§ 31-13. Administrative citation and pre-citation notice.

(a)

Whenever a code enforcement officer determines that a violation of this Code subject to section 31-12 occurred, the code enforcement officer shall have the authority to issue an administrative citation to any person responsible for the violation, subject to the limitations contained in subsection (c) of this section.

(b)

Each administrative citation shall contain the following information:

(1)

The date of the violation;

(2)

The address or a definite description of the location where the violation occurred;

(3)

The section of this Code violated and a description of the violation;

(4)

The amount of the fine for the code violation;

(5)

A description of the fine payment process, including a description of the time within which and the place to which the fine shall be paid;

(6)

An order prohibiting the continuation or repeated occurrence of the code violation described in the administrative citation;

(7)

The name and signature of the citing code enforcement officer.

(c)

Prior to issuing an administrative citation for a continuing violation of this Code pertaining to building, plumbing, electrical, or other similar structural or zoning issues, that do not create an immediate danger to health or safety, the code enforcement officer shall serve a pre-citation notice on the person responsible for the violation containing the following information:

(1)

The date the violation was observed;

(2)

The address or a description of the location where the violation was observed;

(3)

The section of this Code violated and a description of the violation;

(4)

The compliance date by which the violation shall be corrected or otherwise remedied, which shall be no less than fifteen days and no more than sixty days from the date the pre-citation notice is given, as determined to be reasonable by the code enforcement officer;

(5)

A statement that if the violation is not corrected by the specified compliance date, that an administrative citation will be issued which imposes a fine, for the amount of which will be specified; and

(6)

The name, signature and department of the code enforcement officer issuing the pre-citation notice.

(Ord. No. 439 N.S., § 9 (part))