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Chapter 15.5 <br /> <br />PROPERTY MAINTENANCE* <br /> <br />Sec. <br />Secs. <br /> <br /> Article I. In General <br /> <br />15.5-1. Property maintenance provisions; enforcing agency. <br />15.5-2--15.5-20. Reserved. <br /> <br />Sec. 15.5-21. <br />Sec. 15.5-22. <br /> <br /> Article II. Property Grounds Maintenance <br /> <br />Nuisances prohibited; term defined. <br />Notice of abatement; correction by city. <br /> <br />ARTICLE I. IN GENERAL <br /> <br />Sec. 15.5-1. Property maintenance provisions; enforcing agency. <br /> <br /> (a) The Virginia Board of Housing and Community Development adopted the present <br />edition of the Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code. Part III thereunder sets forth the <br />scope, administration, and enforcement procedures for the local option enforcement of the <br />maintenance provisions of the USBC, ~and it is the desire of the city council to enforce the <br />property maintenance provisions of the USBC in their entirety and to assign responsibility for <br />the enforcement of the same; therefore, the inspection division is designated to act as the <br />enforcing agency for the enforcement of the maintenance provisions of the Virginia Uniform <br />Statewide Building Code (USBC) and the therein referenced BOCA National Property <br />Maintenance Code (BNPMC) as duly amended and adopted by the Virginia Board of Housing <br />and Community Development under authority of section 35-98, Code 0fVirginia. Enforcement <br />shall be according to the USBC and this section. <br /> <br /> (b) The enforcement procedure shall be instituted and administered by the building <br />maintenance code official in accordance with the provisions of the USBC, and such building <br />maintenance code official shall establish such procedures or requirements as may be <br />necessary, but not in conflict with the USBC, for administration and enforcement of this <br />section. The procedures are to be approved by the city council, and the local board of building <br />code appeals is hereby designated to hear appeals arising from the application of the <br />maintenance provisions of the USBC. <br />(Ord. No. 2001-5, 7-10-2001) <br /> Editor's notemOrd. No. 2001-5, adopted July 10, 2001, revoked and rescinded Ord. Nos. <br />95-10 and 97-13 in their entirety, being §§ 15.5-1--15.5-8 of this Code. Provisions derived from <br />the preamble and body of Ord. No. 2001-5 have been included herein by the editor as a new <br />§ 15.5-1. <br /> <br />Secs. 15.5-2--15.5-20. Reserved. <br /> <br /> *Cross referenees--BUild~ng regulations, Ch~ 6; sWimming Pools, Ch. 20. <br /> <br />Supp. No. 51 935 <br /> <br /> <br />