§ 8-431. 2012 International Property Maintenance Code—Adopted; purpose.

(a)

Property maintenance code adopted. There is incorporated by reference, for the purpose of adopting regulations, provisions, conditions, terms, and specifications for the control of buildings and structures within the city, the issuing, suspension, and revocation of permits, the collection of fees, making of inspections, the execution of plan reviews, the enforcement of this chapter and the fixing of penalties for violations thereof, the 2012 International Property Maintenance Code, as published by the International Code Council, Inc., excepting only such parts or portions thereof as are specifically added or amended by ordinance. Further, if there exists or arises any conflict between the provisions of the publication and this code, then the provisions of this code are controlling.

(b)

Marked copies of code on file. There shall be not less than three copies of the standard code adopted by reference in subsection (a) of this section kept on file in the office of the united government clerk, to which shall be attached a copy of Ordinance No. O-29-12, and which shall be marked or stamped "Official Copies as Incorporated by Ordinance No. O-29-12," with all sections or portions thereof intended to be omitted clearly marked to show any such deletion or change, and said code shall be open to inspection and available to the public at all reasonable hours. The neighborhood resource center, code enforcement division, rental inspections division and building inspection division, municipal judges and all administrative departments of the unified government charged with the enforcement of this article shall be supplied, at the cost of the unified government, such number of official copies of such standard ordinance similarly marked, deleted and changed as may be deemed expedient.

(c)

Penalty for violation. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this article or the 2012 International Property Maintenance Code herein adopted shall be guilty of a violation of this article, and shall upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than $100.00 nor more than $2,500.00, be imprisoned for not exceeding six months, or both. The office of chief counsel shall, at the request of the public officer, render such legal assistance as may be necessary in carrying out the provisions of this article.

(Code 1988, § 8-336; Ord. No. 65300, §§ 1, 2, 8, 4-7-1988; Ord. No. 66075, § 1, 1-4-1996; Ord. No. 66271, § 1, 9-4-1997; Ord. No. O-57-04, § 26, 9-16-2004; Ord. No. O-44-11, § 26, 10-20-2011; Ord. No. O-29-12, § 26, 5-3-2012; Ord. No. O-46-16 , § 1, 7-28-2016)

State law reference

Adoption by reference authorized, K.S.A. 12-3009 et seq., 12-3301 et seq.