10 - Request for Creation of a Safe Zone at hotel and apartment housing

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Sec. 28-3. - Same—Duties. The chief building official, housing and neighborhood services director, and environment services director shall be in charge of the appropriate compliance. Each department or division shall be responsible for enforcement of this chapter and of the city's environmental, housing and zoning codes and ordinances. The appropriate director or manager shall designate employees to enforce City Code provisions. Enforcement personnel shall be responsible for performing recurring inspections of properties in order to cause the abatement of environmental, health, zoning and housing nuisances. (Ord. No. 9111-2010, § 1, 10-19-10; Ord. No. 9452-2012, § 1, 11-6-12) Sec. 28-4. -Jurisdiction and authority of municipal court in code, housing and environment enforcement. (a) The Municipal Court of Record of the City of Grand Prairie is hereby given civil jurisdiction to enforce the municipal ordinances in this chapter and other city ordinances that were authorized under V.T.C.A., Local Government Code ch. 214, subchapter. A (and any viable preceding legislation or future amendments to such subchapter, which deals with dangerous structures). (b) The municipal court of record is hereby given concurrent jurisdiction with a district court or a county court at law within the city limits and for property owned by the city located in the city's extraterritorial jurisdiction for the purpose of enforcing health and safety and nuisance abatement ordinances, including the ordinances in this chapter of the Code of Ordinances or ordinances found elsewhere. (c) The municipal court of record is hereby given authority to issue search warrants for the purpose of investigating a health and safety or nuisance abatement ordinance violation and authority to issue seizure warrants for the purpose of securing, removing, or demolishing the offending property and removing the debris from the premises. (Ord. No. 9111-2010, § 1, 10-19-10; Ord. No. 9452-2012, § 1, 11-6-12) Sec. 28-5. - Purpose. The purpose of this chapter is to provide minimum requirements for the protection of life, limb, health, property, safety and welfare of the general public and the owners and occupants of hotels and multifamily properties. (Ord. No. 9111-2010, § 1, 10-19-10; Ord. No. 9452-2012, § 1, 11-6-12) Sec. 28-6. - Applicability of chapter. (a) General. The provisions of this chapter shall apply to all buildings or portions thereof, used, or designed or intended to be used as a hotel or multifamily properties. Such occupancies in existing buildings may be continued as provided in the applicable currently adopted building code, except such structures as are found to be substandard, as defined in this chapter. Where any building or portion thereof is used or intended to be used as a hotel or multifamily properties, the provisions of this chapter shall apply to the separate portions as if they were separate buildings. (b) Alteration. Existing hotels and multifamily properties which are altered or enlarged shall be made to conform to this chapter insofar as the new work is concerned. (c) Relocation. Existing hotels and multifamily properties which are moved or relocated shall be considered as new buildings and shall comply with all the requirements of this chapter and the ordinances of the city, (Ord. No. 9111-2010, § 1, 10-19-10; Ord. No. 9452-2012, § 1, 11-6-12)