[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees
of the Village of Great Neck Plaza 8-30-1966 as Ord. No. 57. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Building construction — See Ch. 89.
The Building Inspector or such other official
of the Village of Great Neck Plaza as may be designated by the Board
of Trustees upon notification that a building or structure, from any
cause, may now be or shall become dangerous or unsafe to the public
shall make an inspection thereof and report his findings concerning
the same to the Board of Trustees of the Village of Great Neck Plaza.
If the Board of Trustees shall find that said
building or structure, from any cause, may be or shall become dangerous
or unsafe to the public, it may make an order directing notice to
be served on the owner or some one of the owner's executors, legal
representatives, agents, lessees or any other person having a vested
or contingent interest in the premises where such building or structure
is located as shown by the records of the Receiver of Taxes and/or
in the Office of the County Clerk or County Register.
Such notice shall contain a description of the
premises, a statement of the particulars in which the building or
structure is unsafe or dangerous and an order requiring the same to
be made safe and secure or removed. Said notice shall specify a reasonable
time after the service thereof within which the person served with
such notice may commence the securing or removal of the buildings
or structures as specified in said notice. The notice shall state
that in the event that the building or other structure shall be reported
unsafe or dangerous under a survey to be made as hereinafter provided,
an application will be made at a special term of the Supreme Court
in the Judicial District, in which the property is located, for an
order determining the building or structure to be a public nuisance
and directing that it be repaired and secured or taken down and removed.
Such notice may be served either personally
or by registered mail, addressed to the last known address, if any,
of the owner or some one of the owner's executors, legal representatives,
agents, lessees or other person having a vested or contingent interest
in the premises as hereinbefore specified; provided, however, that
if such service be made by registered mail, a copy thereof shall also
be posted on the premises where the specified building or structure
is located.
In the event of the neglect or refusal of the
person served with the notice to comply with the same, the Board of
Trustees shall cause a survey to be made by an official of the village
and a practical builder, engineer or architect to be named by the
Board of Trustees and a practical builder, engineer or architect appointed
by the person served with the above notice, and in the event of the
refusal or neglect of the person served with such notice to appoint
said practical builder, engineer or architect, the two surveyors named
by the Board of Trustees shall make the survey and report.
A signed copy of the report of the survey shall
be posted on the building.
The compensation of the surveyors shall be determined
by the Village Board of Trustees and included in the cost and expense
incurred by the village in connection with the proceedings taken hereunder.
All costs and expenses incurred by the Village of Great Neck Plaza
in connection with the proceedings to remove or secure an unsafe or
collapsed building or structure, including the cost of actually removing
said building or structure, shall be assessed against the land on
which said buildings or structures are located. The amount of such
cost and expense shall be determined and audited by the Village Board
of Trustees and shall be reported to the Village Assessor of the Village
of Great Neck Plaza as an amount to be levied and assessed against
said premises, as an assessment for an improvement to be included
in the next succeeding assessment roll of the Village of Great Neck
Plaza to be thereafter prepared.
