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the City of South Bend, Indiana, hereby adopts the Enforcement of Building Standards Law, being IC 36-7-9-1 through 36-7-9-28, as it may be amended from time to time; and incorporates herein the definition of "substantial property interest" contained in IC 36-7-9-2, as it may be amended from time to time. (d) Administration. The Code Enforcement Department is hereby designated as the executive department which shall administer the provisions of the Enforcement of Building Standards Law. The Director of the Code Enforcement Department shall be the person responsible for the administration of the Enforcement of Building Standards Law. (e) The Board of Public Safety shall have the responsibility for fixing the average "processing expense" as provided in the Enforcement of Building Standards Law. (f) Unsafe building fund: (1) As provided by Section 14 of the Enforcement of Building Standards Law, a fund designated as the "unsafe building fund" shall be established in the operating budget of the Code Enforcement Department. Any balance remaining at the end of the fiscal year shall be carried over in the fund for the following year and shall not revert to the general fund. Monies for such fund may be received from any source including appropriations by local, State or Federal governments, and donations. ( 2) As further provided by Section 15 of the Enforcement of Building Standards Law, The Code Enforcement Department may take action to transfer all or any part of any money which may exist in the "building, demolition, repair and contingent fund" created by IC 18-5-5-7, to the unsafe building fund. (Ord. No. 683-80, §2; Ord. No. 7145-82, §§1-4; Ord. No. 7513-85, §4; Ord. No. 7696-86, §6)