Sec. 518.470. - Recovery of costs.

Notwithstanding the availability or imposition of civil or criminal penalties, whenever the Chief has declared a property to be unfit for human occupancy and ordered it to be vacated, the City may institute an action in a court of competent jurisdiction to recover, to the fullest extent permitted by law, its costs associated with the declaration of unfitness for human occupancy, including, but not limited to, expenses for relocation of tenants of the vacated property. (Ord. 2003-1304-E, § 1)