Amending Chapter 6 Entitled Property Maintenance Code

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(23) Section PM -701.3 Locked Doors shall be amended to read as follows: PM -701.3 Locked doors. All doors in the required means of egress shall be readily openable from the inner side. w +theist -the U5e_aE_key5- E is -tes t- e�6ae�� }sg- tt�its;- hete� -t sits;- �ee��i g ��its; - a�e�- e�e��►ite�y- tta�ts- ska��- met - dead.- th�e�gh- ether -st�eh units -- er- threegh- teiiet- Teems- er- bathi-eems- (c) ADOPTION OF UNSAFE BUILDING LAW. Pursuant to the authorit granted by the Indiana General Assembly through the Acts of 1973, Public Law 181, the City of South Bend, Indiana, does hereby adopt the Unsafe Building Law, being Indiana Code 18- 5 -5.5 -1 through 18- 5- 5.5 -22 as it may be amended from time to time. (d) ADMINISTRATION. The Bureau of Buildings and Permits, Division of Substandard Buildings, is hereby designated as the unit of government which shall administer the provisions of the Unsafe Building Law. The Commissioner of Buildings shall be the chief administrative officier responsible for the administration of the Unsafe Building Law. (e) ROLE OF THE BOARD OF PUBLIC SAFETY. The Board of Public Safety shall have the responsibility for fixing the average processing expense as provided in the Unsafe Building Law. (f) UNSAFE BUILDING FUND. (1) As provided by section 17 of the Unsafe Building Law a fund designated as the "unsafe building fund" shall be established in the operating budget of the Division of Substandard Buildings. 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 the Common Council, State or Federal legislative authority, and donations. (2) As further provided by section 17 of the Unsafe Building Law, the Commissioner of Buildings 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 Indiana Code, Sections 18 -5 -5 -7 (1976 Edition) to the unsafe building fund. SECTION III. Severability. If any provision, section, or part of any section of this Ordinance is declared to be invalid or unconstitutional, such declara- tion shall not be construed to affect any of the other provisions, sections, or part of sections herein, and the remainder of the Ordinance shall not thereby be invalidated. SECTION IV. Saving Clause. Nothing in this Ordinance or in the Basic Property Maintenance Code herein adopted as amended shall be construed to affect any suit or proceeding impending in any court, or any rights acquitted, or liability incurred, or any cause or causes of action acquired or existing, under any act or Ordinance hereby repealed as cited in Section I of this Ordinance; nor shall any just or legal right or remedy of any character be lost, impaired or affected by this Ordinance. SECTION V. This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage by the Common Council, approval by the Mayor and legal publication. .ember of the Common Council Passed, as amended, October 27, 1980 -5-