2018-68 Ordinance Amending City Code Chapter 70 Property Maintenance Code

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CHAPTER 70 PROPERTY MAINTENANCE CODE 1. APPLICABILITY. This Chapter shall have, along with the Code adopted hereby, the scope and applicability set out in said code, except as modified by the provisions of this Chapter. 2. PROPERTY MAINTENANCE CODE. The same having been duly placed and remained on file as required by law, and subject to the additions, modifications, changes or deletions set out in this Chapter, the International Property Maintenance Code/2015, the same being found and declared by the Council to be regulations as defined by applicable statute, is hereby adopted by reference, the same to be known, and which may be cited as "The Property Maintenance Code" of the City, and which shall have the scope and applicability as therein set out, except as modified by the provisions of this Chapter. (Amended, Ordinance No. 2007-21, Apri12, 2007) 3. SUBSTITUTIONS. Whenever in said Code the words, "name of jurisdiction" appear in brackets, said code is modified by removal of said brackets and substitution of the words, "the City of Decatur, Illinois," in lieu of the words contained therein, and whenever the words "name of state" so appear said Code is so modified and the word "Illinois" so substituted, and said Code shall be taken and construed as if such was expressly so set out therein. 4. NEIGHBORHOOD INSPECTIONS. Whenever in said Code or in the Chapter reference is made to the building official or to the code official such shall be taken to mean and shall be construed to refer to the Neighborhood Inspections Administrator or his designee as fully as if said designation was set out therein in lieu of such words and whenever reference is