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I ORDINANCE NO. 15 , 1982 AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE INSPECTION, REPAIR, OR REMOVAL OF UNSAFE BUILDINGS WITHIN THE CIVIL TOWN OF MOORESVILLE WHEREAS, pursuant to the authority of the Town of Mooresville, to establish reasonable regulations for the inspection, repair, or removal of unsafe buildings pursuant to Indiana Code 36-7-9; BE IT THEREFORE ORDAINED by the Board of Trustees of the Civil Town of Mooresville, Morgan County, Indiana; SECTION I: That under the provisions of Indiana Code 36-7-9, there is hereby established the Mooresville Unsafe Building Law, SECTION II: Indiana Code 36-7-9-1 though 36-7-9-28 is hereby adopted by reference as the Town of Mooresville Unsafe Building Law. All proceedings within the Civil Town of Mooresvil1e for the inspection, repair, and removal of unsafe buildings shall be governed by said law and the provisions of this ordinance. In the event the provisions of Indiana Code 36-7-9-1 through 36-7-9-28, then the provisions of the state statute shall control. SECTION III: All buildings or portions thereof within the Civil Town of Mooresville which are determined after inspection by the building commissioner to be unsafe as defined in this ordinance are hereby declared to be public nuisances and shall be abated by repair, rehabilitation, demolition, or removal. SECTION IV: The Town Building Inspector, as chief administrative office for the Civil Town of Mooresville, shall be authorized to administer and to proceed under the provisions of said law in ordering the repair or removal of any buildings found to be unsafe as specified therein or as specified hereafter. SECTION V: ø vfuerever in the building regulations of the Town of Mooresville or the Mooresville Unsafe Building Law, it is provided that anything must be done to the approval of or subject to the direction of the Building Inspector, or any other officer of the Town of Mooresville, this shall be construed to give such officer only the discretion of determining whether the rules and standards established by ordinance have been complied with; and no such provisions shall be construed as giving any officer discretionary powers as to what such regulations or standards shall be, power to require conditions not prescribed by ordinance, or