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Chronic Problem Properties Regulations Ordinance <br />Page 3 <br />b Chronic Problem Property is a property which meets the following criteria <br />1 A property address which has received five 5 ordinance citations or verified <br />complaints involving nuisance activity in any sixty 60 calendar day period or <br />2 A property address which has been issued five 5 letters by the Police <br />Department and or the Code Enforcement Department and or the Law <br />Department in a sixty 60 calendar day period which sought compliance by the <br />property owner with section s of the South Bend Municipal Code involving <br />nuisance activity excluding any letters issued under the Property Maintenance <br />Code addressed in Section 6 37 of the South Bend Municipal Code or <br />3 A combination of valid complaints and or ordinance citations issued as further <br />addressed in 1 herein and or has been issued letters by the Police Department <br />the Code Enforcement Department and or the Law Department as further <br />addressed in 2 herein which together total not less than five 5 in number <br />issued in a sixty 60 calendar day period <br />However in the event that a property consists of more than fifty 50 dwelling units which are rented or <br />intended to be rented and are located on a single parcel or lot for which a postal address exists or may <br />exist for each individual unit including residential rental properties hotels motels or other similar <br />properties offering overnight lodging such address for a property shall not be considered as a chronic <br />problem property until it has been issued more than twelve 12 verified complaints ordinance citations <br />letters seeking compliance involving nuisance activity as further addressed in 1 through 3 herein in <br />any ninety 90 day period <br />c Citation means the issuance of a written document by a sworn police officer or Code <br />Enforcement Department employee who has a valid police commission Said document indicates that an <br />act is prohibited as an offense punishable under the South Bend Municipal Code payment of a fine to <br />the Ordinance Violations Bureau <br />d City means the City of South Bend Indiana <br />e Nuisance activity means any criminal offense governed in Title 35 of the Indiana Code <br />and or any citation issued for a violation of the South Bend Municipal Code which occurred on the