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24.15.230 Unsafe.

Label: City code section
  1. Means:
  2. A. Any structure that is structurally unsafe or not provided with adequate egress, or that constitutes a fire hazard or is otherwise dangerous to human life.
  3. B. Unsafe use is any use of structures constituting a hazard to health, safety, or public welfare by reason of inadequate maintenance, dilapidation, obsolescence, fire hazard, disaster, damage, or abandonment.
  4. C. Unsafe appendages are parapet walls, cornices, spires, towers, tanks, statuaries, or other appendages or structural members that are supported by, attached to, or part of a building, and that are in a deteriorated condition or otherwise unable to sustain the design loads that are specified in the Oregon Structural Specialty and Fire and Life Safety Code.
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