CHAPTER IV. BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTIONCHAPTER IV. BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION\ARTICLE 11. PROPERTY MAINTENANCE CODE

The International Property Maintenance Code, 2021 Edition, as published by the International Code Council, be and is hereby adopted as the Property Maintenance Code of the City of Eudora, Kansas, regulating and governing all existing residential and nonresidential structures and all existing premises and constitute minimum requirements and standards for premises, structures, equipment and facilities for light, ventilation, space, heating, sanitation protection from the elements, a reasonable level of safety from fire and other hazards, and for a reasonable level of sanitary maintenance; the responsibility of owners, an owner’s authorized agent, operators, and occupants; the occupancy of existing structures and premises, and for administration, enforcement, and penalties. The incorporated areas of the City of Eudora, Kansas, as herein provided, provide for the issuance of permits and collection of fees; therefore, each and all of the regulations, provisions, penalties, conditions, and terms of said Property Maintenance Code are hereby to, adopted and made a part hereof, as if fully set out herein, with the additions, inspections, deletions.

(Ord. 928; Code 2016; Ord. 1137)

Not less than one copy of the International Property Maintenance Code, 2021 Edition, marked and stamped in the manner provided by K.S.A. 12-3304, shall be filed with the City Clerk and shall be open to inspection and available to the public at reasonable business hours. Subsequent references to the “Property Maintenance Code” shall mean the International Property Maintenance Code, 2021 Edition, as adopted and amended herein.

(Ord. 1137)

The International Property Maintenance Code, 2021 Edition, is amended or supplemented as provided below.

4-1102.1. Chapter 1 of the Property Maintenance Code is deleted and replaced with the provisions of Article 1 of this Chapter 4.

4-1102.2. APPENDIX B: BOARD OF APPEALS is deleted and replaced with the provisions of Article 1 of this Chapter 4.

(Ord. 928; Ord. 1137)

If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase in this Article or in the Property Maintenance Code is, for any reason, held to be unconstitutional or invalid, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions hereof. The Building Official declares that it would have passed this code and each section, subsection, clause, or phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that anyone or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses, and phrases be declared unconstitutional or invalid.

(Ord. 1137)

Nothing herein or in the Property Maintenance Code hereby adopted shall be construed to affect any suit or proceeding impending in any court, or any rights acquired, or liability incurred, or any cause or causes of action acquired or existing under any act or resolution repealed in connection with the adoption of the Property Maintenance Code; nor shall any just or legal right or remedy of any character be lost, impaired or affected by this legislation.

(Ord. 1137)