A. The owner of a historic building shall ensure the preservation of the historic building by undertaking preventative maintenance.

B. Preventive maintenance should be carried out in a fashion consistent with good preservation practice and consistent with the Secretary of the Interior standards. Preventive maintenance activities include, but are not limited to, cleaning, repainting of stone and masonry, and repainting of previously painted surfaces in the same or similar color that does not involve a change in design, material or the external appearance thereof.

C. This section does not prevent the construction, reconstruction, alteration, restoration, demolition or removal of any historic building which has been certified by the town building official, or Menlo Park fire district fire chief, or other code enforcement officer as being in unsafe or dangerous condition which cannot be rectified through the use of the California State Historic Building Code.

D. It shall be the duty of the chief building official to enforce this section. (Ord. 652 § 1, 2022)