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TUESDAY AUGUST 10, 1982 WHEREAS, Section 58-847 of the CODE OF VIRGINIA (1950, and as amended) authorizes the governing body of any city to provide by ordinance the time for filing annual returns of taxable tangible personal property and to provide by ordinance the penalties for the failure to file such returns on time; now, therefore, BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, that, beginning in 1983 and continuing each succeeding year thereafter, the annual returns of taxable tangible personal property shall be filed with the office of the City's Commissioner of the Revenue on or before May 1st; and - BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED that the penalty for failure to file any such return on or before said May 1st of each year shall be ten percent (10%) of the tax assessable on such return or ten dollars ($10.00), whichever is greater, and that said penalty shall be assessed on the day after any such return is due; and BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED that the Commissioner of the Revenue be, and he hereby is, authorized to grant reasonable extensions of time, not to exceed ninety (90) days, for filing any such return whenever good cause exists; provided, that if any taxpayer who has been granted an extension of time for filing his return fails to file said return within the extended time his case shall be treated the same as if no extension had been granted. Council also unanimously adopted the following ordinance (introduced July 27, 1982) which provides for the mandated repair and/or condemnation and mandated removal of unsafe buildings within the City: WHEREAS, the Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code (USBC) provides for condemnation and mandated removal or demolition of unsafe buildings within a City; and WHEREAS, Section 15.1-11.2 of the Code of Virginia provides that the work of repair or demolition of unsafe buildings may proceed by order of the Building Official, with the cost thereof to be levied against the owners of such buildings; now therefore, BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Martinsvil1e, in regular session held on the 10th day of August, 1982, as follows: 1. Right of condemnation: Buildings and their equipment constructed after September 1, 1973, and subject to the USBC when constructed that fail to comply with the USBC through deterioration, improper maintenance, or for other reasons, and thereby become unsafe, unsani- tary, or deficient in adequate exit facilities, and which constitute a fire hazard, or are otherwise danger- ous to human life or the public welfare, shall be deemed unsafe buildings. All unsafe buildings shall be made safe through compliance with the USBC or shall be taken down and removed, as the Building Official may deem