§ 41-3. Repair or removal; inspections and reports; notice of unsafe structure.

A. 

No person, firm or corporation or association who or which is the owner of a building in the Village of Rhinebeck shall cause, suffer, allow or permit said building to become dangerous or unsafe to the public. In the event that any building now is or hereafter becomes dangerous or unsafe to the public from any cause whatsoever, said owner or occupant shall repair or remove said building.

B. 

In the event of the failure of the owner of any such building to repair or remove the same, the Building Inspector of the Village of Rhinebeck shall make a complete inspection and report of the condition of said building to the Board of Trustees of said Village.

C. 

Notice shall thereafter be served on the owner or some one of the owners, executors, legal representatives, agents, lessees or any other person having a vested or contingent interest in said building. Said notice shall contain a description of the premises, a statement of the particulars in which the building or structure is unsafe or dangerous and an order requiring said building or structure to be made safe and secure or removed. Said notice shall also provide for the time within which the person served with said notice shall commence and complete the securing or removal of the building or structure. In the event of the neglect or refusal of the person so served with said notice to comply with same, a survey of the premises shall be made by the Building Inspector and a practical builder, engineer or architect to be named by the Board of Trustees of said Village and a practical builder, engineer or architect appointed by the person notified as above, and in the event of the refusal or neglect of the person so notified to appoint such surveyor, the two surveyors named shall make the survey and report. The notice shall further provide that in the event that the building or other structure shall be reported dangerous or unsafe under such circumstances, an application will be made to the Supreme Court of the State of New York for an order determining that the building or other structure is a public nuisance and directing that it shall be repaired and secured or taken down and removed.