When, in the opinion of the director, there is imminent danger of failure or collapse
of any building or structure, or part thereof, which endangers life, or when any building
or structure or part of any building or structure has failed or collapsed so as to
be an imminent threat to the public health, safety, or welfare, and or life is endangered
by the occupation or use of any building or structure, or when there is actual or
potential danger to any building's or structure's occupants, or when there is actual
or potential danger to persons, buildings, or structures in close proximity of any
building or structure, resulting from the instability of any building or structure,
or the presence of explosives, explosive fumes or vapors, toxic fumes, toxic gases
or materials, or defective or dangerous equipment that is operating, the director
is hereby authorized and empowered to order and require the occupants to vacate the
building, structure, or premises forthwith, to order and require temporary safeguards
be expeditiously employed, to order and require emergency repairs, and or to cause
such building or structure to be demolished pursuant to Section 16.52.080 of this
code. In addition, the director may cause to be to be posted at each entrance to such
building, structure, or premises a notice reading as follows: "This Building Is Unfit
for Human Habitation, Occupation or Use. The Use or Occupancy of This Building is
Unlawful and Prohibited by Order of the Director of the Department of Codes Administration."
It shall be unlawful for any person to enter such building or structure except for
the purpose of securing the structure, making required repairs, removing the hazardous
condition, or demolishing the same.
