Chapter 4 · Building Regulations

Article 7. Property Maintenance Code

Sections 4-701 to 4-703 · 3 sections

4-701 Adoption of property maintenance code.

For the purpose of regulating and governing the conditions and maintenance of all property, buildings and structures; providing standards for utilities supplied thereto and other physical things and conditions essential to ensure that structures are safe, sanitary and fit for occupation and use; and for the condemnation of buildings and structures unfit for human occupancy and use and the demolition of such, the International Property Maintenance Code, 2018 Edition, published by the International Code Council, 4051 West Flossmoor Road, Country Club Hills, Illinois 60478-5794. Not fewer than three copies of said code shall be marked or stamped “Official Copy as adopted by Ordinance No. 4197” and to which a copy of said ordinance shall be attached and which shall be maintained in the office of City Clerk in the City Hall of Garnett, Kansas.

(Code 1961, 4-18-1; Ord. 3863; Ord. 4197; Code 2023)

4-702 Office of inspection and enforcement; penalty for violation.

(a)It shall be the duty and the responsibility of the City Manager or Director of Inspection and Planning to supervise and enforce the provisions of the international property maintenance code.

(b)Any person who shall violate any provision of the international property maintenance code, as from time to time adopted by the City of Garnett, Kansas, and in force shall be punished in accordance with the general penalty provisions of this code, of which the said international property maintenance code is deemed to be a part.

(Code 1961, 4-18-2; Ord. 3863; Code 2023)

4-703 Coordination with existing code provisions.

The provisions of the said international property maintenance code, or any amendments thereto, to the extent there is an overlap with the provisions of chapter 8, article 4 of this code, shall be deemed to be an alternative method for dealing with the condemnation and repair or demolition of unsafe, noncompliant structures.

(Code 1961, 4-18-3; Ord. 3863; Code 2023)