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(a) if the owner of a building or dwelling fails to comply <br />with the order to repair, alter, or improve, or to vacate and close the <br />building or dwelling, the building commissioner shall cause to be posted <br />on the main entrance to any building or dwelling so closed a placard <br />stating in substance: "This building is dangerous and unfit for human <br />habitation. The use Jr occupation of this building for human habitation, <br />or any other purpose, is prohibited and unlawful ". <br />(b) If the owner fails to comply with an order to remove <br />or demolish the binding, the building commissioner may cause such build- <br />ing to be removed or demolished, provided, however, that the duties of <br />the building commissioner, as previously set forth, shall not be exercised <br />until the 2,aerd of Public Works and Safety has ordered the building com- <br />missioner to proceed to effectuate the purposes of this ordinance with <br />respect to the particular property or properties which the building com- <br />missioner shall have found to be unfit for human habitation or dangerous, <br />and which property or properties shall be described in the order. <br />(c) The cost of such repairs, alterations, or improve- <br />ments or vacating and closing, or removal by the building commissioner <br />shall be a lien against the real property and all materials thereto attached <br />upon which such costs were incurred. Such costs shall be placed upon <br />the city's tax books as a lien against the said property and may be fore- <br />closed in any such manner as the city may determine. If a building or <br />dwelling is removed or demolished by the building commissioner, whenever <br />any order requiring such action has become final and within seventy -two <br />(72) hours thereafter, any owners or others having an interest in any such <br />building or dwelling, shall have the prior right and may elect in writing <br />eith. r to retain all or any of the materials salvaged from such work by <br />paying the cost Qf all liens thereon; or may elect to have all or any part <br />thereof removed by the city and either sold with the amount received thereto <br />-b - <br />