A. The town intends to preserve from deliberate or inadvertent neglect any landmark or historic structure whose stabilization is necessary to prevent the landmark's or historic structure's deterioration that constitutes demolition without a permit.

B. No owner, lessee, or occupant of any landmark or historic structure shall neglect or fail to prevent stabilization of the landmark or any historic structure.

C. No owner, lessee, or occupant of any landmark or any historic structure shall neglect or fail to comply with all applicable provisions of this chapter and other ordinances of the town regulating property maintenance of the landmark or any historic structure.

D. Where the director identifies a case of demolition by neglect, they shall notify the property owner, lessee, or occupant of the need to stabilize the property, shall endeavor to assist the owner, lessee, or occupant in determining how to stabilize the property, and shall give the owner a reasonable time, not less than thirty (30) days, to perform the required stabilization.

E. Stabilization of a secondary structure shall be processed under a Class D minor permit with a waived permit fee. The required documents shall be reduced to the following: description of work, basic site plan, altered photos or drawings on graph paper to show proposed changes, and before and after photos of the structure. As part of the permit a pre-construction meeting is required. (Ord. 24, Series 2001; amd. Ord. 16, Series 2024)