Number
101139
Version
SUBSTITUTE 1
Reference
Sponsor
ALDS. MURPHY, BAUMAN, WADE, AND COGGS
Title
A substitute ordinance relating to requirements to secure vacant buildings.
Sections
275-32-7-a-2 am
Analysis
Current code provisions require that, upon order of the commissioner of the department of neighborhood services, all doors and windows on ground level and those doors and windows accessible to grade by stairs or permanently fixed ladders or within 10 feet of grade of a vacant structure be boarded. This ordinance gives the commissioner the power to order that additional doors, windows or other means of ingress or egress be boarded.
...Body
The Mayor and Common Council of the City of Milwaukee do ordain as follows:
Part 1. Section 275-32-7-a-2 of the code is amended to read:
275-32. Exterior Structure.
7. VACANT STRUCTURES.
a-2. Boarding of a structure shall be required for all doors and windows on ground level>>,<< [[and]] those doors and windows accessible to grade by stairs or permanently fixed ladders or within 10 feet of grade >>and any other doors, windows or other means of ingress or egress as directed by the commissioner<<.
LRB
APPROVED AS TO FORM
____________________________
Legislative Reference Bureau
Date: ______________________
Attorney
IT IS OUR OPINION THAT THE ORDINANCE
IS LEGAL AND ENFORCEABLE
____________________________
Office of the City Attorney
Date: ______________________
Drafter
LRB124429-2
Rich Watt
3/28/11