[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Greenport
3-7-1972 as L.L. No. 2-1972. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Fire prevention and building construction — See Ch. 65.
Preservation of historic areas — See Ch. 78.
It is the intent of the Board of Trustees of the Village of Greenport
in enacting this chapter to prevent injury to the public health, safety and
welfare due to unsafe buildings and to provide for the demolition of such
buildings.
This chapter shall be known as the "Unsafe Building Demolition Law."
The Board of Trustees of the Village of Greenport shall appoint a Building
Inspector, who shall be charged with the responsibility of carrying out the
obligations and duties set forth in this chapter.
A.
No person, firm, corporation or association who or which
is the owner of a building in the Village of Greenport shall cause, suffer,
allow or permit said building to become dangerous or unsafe to the public.
B.
In the event that any building now is or hereafter becomes
dangerous or unsafe to the public from any cause whatsoever, the owner or
occupant thereof shall repair or remove said building. In the event of the
failure of the owner or occupant of any such building to repair or remove
the same, the Building Inspector of the Village of Greenport shall make a
complete inspection thereof and report the condition of the building to the
Board of Trustees of said village. Notice shall thereafter be served on the
owner or some one of the owners, executors, legal representatives, agents,
lessees or any other person having a vested or contingent interest in said
building. Said 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 said building or structure to be made safe and secure
or removed. Said notice shall also provide for the time within which the person
served with the notice shall commence and complete the securing or removal
of the building or structure. In the event of neglect or refusal of the person
so served with said notice to comply with same, a survey of the premises shall
be made by an inspector and architect to be named by the Board of Trustees
of said village and a particular builder, engineer or architect appointed
by the person notified as above, and in the event of the refusal or neglect
of the person so notified to appoint such surveyor, the two (2) surveyors
named shall make the survey and report. The notice shall further provide that
in the event that the building or other structure shall be reported dangerous
or unsafe under such survey, an application will be made at a special term
of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County, for an order determining the building
or other structure to be a public nuisance and directing that it shall be
repaired and secured or taken down and removed.
A signed copy of the report of survey shall be posted on the building,
and the surveyors appointed by the Board of Trustees shall be compensated
by the village.
All costs and expenses incurred by the village in connection with any
and all of the above proceedings to remove or secure, including the cost of
actually removing said building or structure or securing the same, shall be
assessed against the land on which the building or structure is located.
If such owner or person served by mail as hereinabove provided shall
fail to pay the costs and expenses incurred by the village within ten (10)
days after being notified, by registered mail, of the costs thereof, the Village
Clerk shall, immediately preceding the time for making the annual assessment
roll, file a certificate of such actual cost and expense with a statement
as to the property upon which such costs and expenses were incurred and the
buildings or other obstructions removed, as the case may be, with the Assessor
of the village, who shall, in the preparation of the next assessment roll
of general village taxes, assess such amount upon such property, and the same
shall be levied, collected and enforced in the same manner, by the same proceedings,
at the same time, under the same penalties and having the same lien upon the
property assessed as the general village tax and as part thereof.
In cases of great emergency where the delay of proceedings, as hereinbefore
provided, would result in probable loss of life or property, the Mayor or
Manager shall have the power to direct the Building Inspector to proceed at
once to take such action as is needed to guard the safety of persons and property.
