All buildings, ATS, or structures regulated by this chapter and the technical codes which are structurally inadequate or have inadequate egress, or which constitute a fire or life safety hazard, are, for the purpose of this chapter and the technical codes, unsafe.
Building service equipment regulated by this chapter and the technical codes, which constitutes a fire, electrical or health hazard, or is otherwise dangerous to human life is, for the purpose of this chapter, unsafe. Any use of buildings, ATS, structures or building service equipment constituting a hazard to safety, health or public welfare by reason of inadequate maintenance, dilapidation, obsolescence, fire hazard, disaster, damage or abandonment is, for the purpose of this chapter, an unsafe use.
Parapet walls, cornices, spires, towers, tanks, statuary and other appendages or structural members which are supported by, attached to, or a part of a building and which are in deteriorated condition or otherwise unable to sustain the design loads which are specified in the Building Code are hereby designated as unsafe building appendages.
All such unsafe buildings, rides/devices, structures or appendages and building service equipment are hereby declared to be public nuisances and shall be abated by repair, rehabilitation, demolition or removal in accordance with the procedures set forth in the abatement of dangerous building code (22.12). As an alternative, the county may institute any other appropriate action to prevent, restrain, correct or abate the violation. (Ord. 3618 § 2 (part), 2008)