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AN ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLE XVIII HOUSING CODE OF THE REVISED GENERAL ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF NEWARK BY ESTABLISHING THE PROPERTY COMPLIANCE COST RECOVERY PROGRAM TO AUTHORIZE THE RECOVERY OF EXTRAORDINARY MUNICIPAL COMPLIANCE COSTS RESULTING FROM EXTRAORDINARY MUNICIPAL INTERVENTION
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WHEREAS, the City of Newark has a substantial interest in protecting the public health, safety, and welfare by ensuring that residential, commercial, mixed-use, vacant, and other properties are maintained in compliance with applicable federal, State, and local laws, ordinances, regulations, and codes; and
WHEREAS, the Municipal Council finds that certain properties require extraordinary municipal resources beyond the ordinary provision of governmental services due to repeated or significant violations of applicable laws, ordinances, regulations, or conditions affecting the public health, safety, and welfare; and
WHEREAS, the Municipal Council further finds that such conditions frequently require coordinated enforcement efforts, engineering and technical services, legal action, emergency response, property stabilization, environmental remediation, receivership proceedings, and other extraordinary municipal activities necessary to protect residents and surrounding neighborhoods; and
WHEREAS, the Municipal Council finds that the extraordinary municipal expenditures associated with such properties are presently absorbed by the taxpayers of the City of Newark rather than recovered from the Responsible Property Owners whose actions or omissions necessitated those expenditures; and
WHEREAS, the Municipal Council further finds that existing enforcement remedies are intended to secure compliance with applicable laws but do not establish a comprehensive mechanism for recovering documented Extraordinary Municipal Compliance Costs incurred by the City in responding to such conditions; and
WHEREAS, the Municipal Council recognizes that, in appropriate circumstances, the City may i...
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