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City Council Meeting April 8, 2002 Page 2 A motion was made by Mayor Pro Tem Manning, seconded by Councilman Bell, for adoption of the ordinance. The motion carried 7 ayes, 0 nays. Mayor Pfiester announced that the next item on the agenda was an ordinance repealing Article III of Chapter 7, Section 7-46 through 7-53 of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Paris, entitled "Hazardous Buildings"; adopting a new Article III, Section 7-46 through 17-53, entitled "Substandard and Dangerous Buildings"; adopting Article IV of Chapter 7, Sections 7-81 through 7-89, entitled "Secured Building Permit"; and establishing a Building and Standards Commission. City Attorney Schenk advised that this is one of the charges given to the Legal Department. Three ordinances have already been adopted and they relate to the cleaning up of hazardous materials, beautification in the city, and weed and litter clean up. The city has also adopted ordinances for solid waste and junk vehicles. City Attorney Schenk informed the Council that two new Articles to the Code of Ordinances are proposed. The first one addresses the provisions to Article III of the current Code to revise the city's process for dealing with substandard buildings and structures and replace it with an ordinance that is consistent with state law. City Council has been presented with a twenty-two page ordinance with an agenda information sheet. Mr. Schenk said that Article III stays very close to state law. It would require the creation of a Building Standards Commission consisting of five appointed regular members and four alternates. These would be citizens with some degree of special expertise and interested in substandard buildings. The Code Inspectors would start to enforce the ordinance by giving appropriate notice to identify substandard structures by citing the owners about the substandard nature of the building. He advised that there would be a hearing before the Building Standards Commission and if there were an order issued regarding the respective properties and the property owner would be required to comply with those orders or appeal directly to District Court.