87-17 Historic Preservation Transition

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(2) Such standards shall be applicable only to the exterior features of historic landmarks and of buildings or structures within Historic Preservation Districts. (g) Develop historic preservation plans for historic landmarks and districts and, together with other public or private agencies or officials, assist in the administration and implementation of such plans. (h) Promote public interest in historic preservation by initiating and carrying on a public relations and community education program. (i) Advise and assist owners of historic landmarks in the preservation of those landmarks. 0) Accept in the name of the City of South Bend, through gift, grant, legacy, bequest or endowment, monies and preservation easements in real property for the purpose of the preservation of historic landmarks and Historic Preservation Districts. Expenditures of such money, regardless of the source, must be deposited in a special Historic Preservation Commission account, and receive prior approval from the Common Council before expenditures may be made. (k) The provisions of this article shall be enforced as provided by Article 10 of this chapter. (1) The Historic Preservation Commission,as the local government certified by the Indiana State Historic Preservation Officer and the Secretary of the Interior of the United States,shall process National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Forms in accordance with regulations established by the Historic Preservation Commission consistent with the Indiana Certified Local Government Regulations. (m) The Historic Preservation Commission shall receive and accept preservation easements, determined by the Commission to be appropriate and acceptable,as follows: (1) The preservation easements shall be created and conveyed in accordance with the provisions of IC 32-23-5-1 et seq. ("Act"); (2) The Commission shall receive, accept, administer, monitor and enforce the preservation easements in accordance with the provisions of the Act and rules and regulations adopted by the Commission; (3) The Commission may charge any person granting a preservation easement to the Commission a filing and administration fee reasonably related to the Commission's costs of processing, recording and periodically reviewing and monitoring the preservation easement; (4) The Commission may enforce the terms and provisions of the documents creating any preservation easement and may collect from the person or persons against whom such enforcement is sought the Commission's costs of enforcement, including without limitation court costs and attorneys' fees, and the document creating any preservation easement accepted by the Commission shall provide for the payment of such enforcement costs; (5) The Commission may accept a preservation easement only if all persons with an interest in the subject real property at the time that the easement is granted join in the grant and conveyance of the easement to the Commission; and 7