Green City Zoning Code
LAND REUTILIZATION
PROGRAM
§ 157.210 PURPOSE.
The City Council adopts and implements the procedure set forth in R.C. §§ 5722.02 through 5722.15, inclusive, to facilitate the effective reutilization of nonproductive land in the city.
(Prior Code, § 1233.01) (Ord. 2013-17, passed 9-24-2013)
§ 157.211 AUTHORITY OF OFFICIALS.
The Mayor, Director of Planning, Director of Finance, Law Director and such other city officials, as appropriate, are authorized to provide such information, and execute, certify and furnish such other documents and do all other actions necessary and/or incidental to carry out the land reutilization program.
(Prior Code, § 1233.02) (Ord. 2013-17, passed 9-24-2013)
§ 157.999 PENALTY.
(1) Any person, firm or corporation violating any regulation, provision, amendment or supplement to this Code, or failing to obey any lawful order of the Zoning Division issued in pursuance thereof, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree and, upon conviction thereof, shall be jailed for not more than 60 days and/or fined not more than $500 or the maximum amount allowed by state statutes. Each and every day during which such illegal location, erection, construction, reconstruction, enlargement, change, maintenance or use continues may be deemed a separate offense.
(2) Whoever willfully violates any rule or regulation adopted by the City Council by resolution or ordinance pursuant to § 3.3 of the Charter, or fails to comply with any order issued pursuant thereto, shall forfeit and pay not less than $10, nor more than $1,000. Such sum may be recovered, with costs, in a civil action brought in the Court of Common Pleas of the county, relative to which the violation occurred, by the legal representative of the city, in the name of the city and for the use thereof.
(3) Any person, being the owner or agent of the owner of any land, who willfully transfers any lot, parcel or tract of such land from or in accordance with a plat of a subdivision as specifically defined in R.C. Ch. 711, before such plat has been recorded in the office of the County Fiscal Officer, shall forfeit and pay the sum of not less than $10, nor more than $500, for each lot, parcel or tract of land so sold. The description of such lot, parcel or tract by metes and bounds in the deed or transfer shall not serve to exempt the seller from the forfeiture provided in this division (3).
(Prior Code, § 1230.02) (Ord. 2009-21, passed 10-27-2009)