2020-01 Ordinance Amending City Code Chapter 67 - Building Code

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Such fees shall be assessed by mailing notice of same to the owner or other person by certified mail, return receipt requested. Payment thereof shall be due fourteen (14) days after mailing of such notice, which notice must contain a statement of the right of the owner or other person to appeal the same to the Board and the time limitation thereon. In any judicial proceeding brought by the City to collect fees which have not been paid as required by the provisions hereof, failure to receive notice of the assessment of such fee may be a defense thereto,but only if such notice was not sent to the proper mailing address of the defendant or was received thereat by someone other than a person upon whom substituted service may be made pursuant to the Illinois Code of Civil Procedure. Any fee or fees assessed as herein provided, and any judgment entered for same, shall be in addition to any fine imposed by the Circuit Court under Section of this Chapter. No certificate of occupancy shall be issued for any building for which permit or re- inspection fees are unpaid.