Chelan County, WA Property Maintenance: Property Blight (2026)

010 enacts the Uniform Code for the Abatement of Dangerous Buildings, 1973 Edition, 'as from time to time amended,' effective throughout the unincorporated areas of the county for abating dangerous buildings, under Resolution 76-29 (4/12/76). 020 translates the model code's municipal titles into county equivalents: 'building official' means the county building director; 'city' means Chelan County; 'fire marshal' means the county building director; 'county recorder' means the county auditor; 'city council' means the county commissioners; 'director of public works' means the county building director; 'city clerk' means the county auditor; and 'tax collector' means the county treasurer.

030, the Board of County Commissioners itself sits as the code's board of appeals, hearing challenges to a building-official order rather than referring them to a separate board. 040 requires that any repair or demolition performed at county expense, rather than the owner's, happen only through individual board action taken in each case, so the commissioners must vote on every publicly funded abatement rather than delegate it to staff. The substantive abatement standards, the definition of a dangerous building, and the notice-and-hearing procedure come from the incorporated 1973 Uniform Code rather than being reprinted in the county code; the county's own text supplies the enactment, the title-translation table, the appeals body, and the county-expense-repair rule.