In the event of an emergency situation constituting an immediate threat to individual
human life, property, or the public safety due to a hazardous condition of a building
or structure, and if, in addition, the time necessarily consumed in applying for a
judicial warrant authorizing entry, or if the amount of time required to locate the
owner of such building or structure could readily intensify such threat, or if the
said owner refuses to cooperate in making safe such building or structure, then, and
in that event, any sworn police officer of the Prince George's County Police Department
shall have the right, without permission or warrant, to make an emergency entrance
into such building or structure for the purpose of abating or eliminating the dangerous
condition existing therein in a manner that will preserve human life, protect the
rights of all property owners involved, and minimize the costs of such abatement or
elimination of the dangerous condition. The reasonable cost of making safe such a
hazardous structure shall be the burden of the owner of said property. In the event
that the owner of said property fails to make payment within thirty (30) days of the
receipt of a bill demanding payment by the County of all monies expended by the County
in abating or eliminating a hazardous structure or dangerous condition in an emergency
situation, the County Attorney shall take such actions as necessary to recover such
costs from the owner of the premises. Such action of the County Attorney may include,
but need not be limited to, initiating those steps necessary to establish a tax lien
against said property.
(CB-25-1977)
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