D. - Protective maintenance required.

1.

The owner of any building or structure located in a historic district shall keep such structure properly maintained and repaired.

2.

The degree of maintenance and repair hereby required is that degree sufficient to prevent all permanent damage to the structural components and/or the exterior by any foreseeable force, including but not limited to weather, fire and termites.

3.

The zoning administrator may require such owner to discharge this maintenance duty. Acts which the zoning administrator may require such owner to perform, pursuant to this subsection, shall include, but shall not be limited to, the following: exterior painting; replacing broken window panes; securing abandoned structures by boarding up, or otherwise; maintaining a sound roof, eaves and roof gutters; termite treatment, if the board suspects that the structure contains termites.

4.

The zoning administrator may use whatever legal processes are needed to assure that this duty is discharged fully and properly. The zoning administrator, to the extent that their powers permit, shall honor requests made by the board for the purpose of enforcing this subsection.