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PROPOSED ORDINANCE AMENDMENT
AMENDMENT TO FEE SCHEDULE, BUILDING REGULATIONS AND SIGN ORDINANCE
BE IT ORDAINED, by the Cook County Board of Commissioners that Chapter 32 Fees, is hereby amended to read as follows:
Sec. 32-1. - Fee schedule.
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CHAPTER 102, BUILDINGS AND BUILDING REGULATIONS
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BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, by the Cook County Board of Commissioners that Chapter 102 Building and Building Regulations, Article II - Vacant Buildings, Section 102-5, Section 102-6 and Section 102-19 is hereby amended to read as follows:
Sec. 102-5. - Obligation to register.
(a) The owner of any building that has become vacant shall within 30 days, after the building becomes vacant or within 30 days after assuming ownership of the building, whichever is later, file a registration statement, including proof of liability insurance in the amount prescribed in Section 102-14, for each such building with the appropriate enforcing authority on forms provided by that department for such purposes and pay a registration fee in the amount prescribed in Section 102-6, for each registered building; provided, however, that all eleemosynary, religious, educational, benevolent or charitable associations organized on a not-for-profit basis and all governmental agencies shall be exempt from the payment of the registration fee. The registration shall remain valid for one year from the date of registration. The owner shall be required to renew the registration every year as long as the building remains vacant. There shall be no fee for such renewal. and pay a renewal fee as prescribed in Section 102-6. The owner shall notify the Department of Building and Zoning, within 20 days, of any change in the registration information by filing an amended registration statement on a form provided by the Department of Building and Zoning for such purposes. The registration statement shall be deemed prima facie proof of the statements therein contained in a...
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