Amending Variou Sections Chapter 13 Addressing Chronic Problem Property Regulations

Home Browse Search

Chronic Problem Property Ordinance Amendments Page 3 City warning said owner, and the manager /operator who is doing business at that location that upon receiving five (5) such citations and /or valid complaints in a sixty (60) day period that their property would be deemed a chronic problem property. Section It. Section 13 -157 of Article 12 of Chapter 13 of the South Bend Municipal Code is hereby amended as follows: Sec. 13 -157 Violations; Notification and Limited Appeals of Being Designated by the City as a Chronic Problem Property.' (a) The owner of any property within the city of South Bend which is designated by the City as a chronic problem property, as defined in Sec. 13 -56, is in violation of this Article. The property owner of any designated chronic problem property shall be responsible for bringing such property into compliance with all governing regulations. However, in the event that such chronic problem property is zoned as commercial industrial or planned unit development as defined in Sec. 13 -56 the manager /owner /operator who is doing business at that location are jointly and severally responsible for bringing such property into compliance with all governing regulations. (b) The South Bend Police Department shall send a warning notice letter to any property owner, and in the case of the property being zoned commercial planned unit development to the manager /owner /operator who is doing business at that location, when the property address has been subject to three (3) verified complaints and /or ordinance citations and /or letters issued by the Police Department, the Code Enforcement Department and /or the Law Department, advising said ewxer person that when the City verifies that said number increases to the thresholds in the definition of a chronic problem property, it shall be so designated. The Police Department, the Code Enforcement Department and the Law Department shall update their data on a regular and consistent basis and electronically transmit it to the assigned police officer(s) of the South Bend Police Department whose responsibilities include overseeing the warning notice letter process. (c) When designating a specific property as a chronic property, the assigned police officer(s) in the South Bend Police Department, shall review and verify: The number of police documented calls for services, the number of verified complaints and ordinance citations issued by the Police Department to a property address in the applicable sixty (60) or ninety (90) day period; and 2. The number of ordinance citations and /or compliance letters sent by the Code Enforcement Department and the number of compliance letters sent by the Indiana Code § 36 -1 -1 through Indiana Code § 36 -1 -10 set forth the governing state law provisions for the enforcement of municipal ordinances. Section 2 -13 of the South Bend Municipal Code identifies the City's nine (9) executive departments and specifically lists the Law Department, Police Department and Code Enforcement Department.