2023-94 Ordinance Amending City Code Chapter 67.2 Residential Building Code

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the Inspection Division for any of the following reasons: (Amended, Ordinance No. 2020-02, January 6, 2020, Effective February 1, 2020) 1) The work for which the inspection has been requested is not installed or completed to the extent that an inspection can be made; 2) The inspection reveals that there are violations which should have been found and corrected by workers while simply checking their work before calling for an inspection. 3) The work for which the inspection has been requested has been covered up or hidden from view so that an inspection cannot be made; 4) The Inspector is unable to gain entry at the time requested by the contractor, or 5) When previously noted violations have not been corrected. Fees assessed as herein provided may be appeals to the Construction and Housing Board of Appeals by filing a notice of such appeal with the City Clerk within fourteen (14) days of the mailing of notice of such assessment. An appeal shall stay the due date for payment until the date of the final order of the Board. 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.