In cases involving imminent danger due to extreme life-safety hazards that require
emergency action on the part of the City to render the premises safe from such public
safety hazards, the Building Official, the code official, or his or her designee,
or the fire official in accordance with Chapter 24 of the Orlando City Code, shall have the authority to perform the necessary repairs,
removals, securing, or demolitions to abate the safety hazards. Abatement may also
include, but is not limited to, disconnecting any and all utilities to a building
or structure, or temporarily closing a building or premises to prohibit use or occupancy.
The property owner shall be given notice as immediately as possible regarding such
action or work, and the fixing of a lien for any associated costs; however, this notice
shall not be cause for holding up City action or work to abate any extreme and imminent
public safety hazard. If an occupied building or structure requires emergency action
due to extreme life-safety hazards, procedures set forth in Article I, Chapter 5 of
the Orlando City Code regarding notice and vacating of such building or structure
shall be followed. Whether or not the notice is sent prior to, during, or after City
action or work, the notice shall state that the property owner(s), or occupants as
the case may be, shall have an opportunity to contest the determination to do the
emergency work and the charges therefor, upon appeal of such determination within
thirty (30) days to the Code Enforcement Board. When the City work includes demolition
of structures, the notice shall also be given to the mortgage holder and other lienholders
of record.
