§ 45-24.4-17 - Judicial aid in enforcement of plan.
SECTION 45-24.4-17
§ 45-24.4-17 Judicial aid in enforcementof plan. – (a) The supreme court and the superior court, within their jurisdictions, upondue proceedings in the name of the city instituted by its city solicitor, havepower to issue any extraordinary writs or to proceed according to the course ofequity or both:
(1) To restrain the erection, alteration, or use of anybuilding, structure, or other thing erected, altered, or used in violation ofthe provisions of any plan adopted under the authority of this chapter, and toorder its removal or abatement as a nuisance;
(2) To compel compliance with the provisions of any planadopted under the authority of this chapter;
(3) To order the removal by the owner of any building,structure, or other thing existing in violation of any plan adopted under theprovisions of this chapter, and to authorize some official of the city indefault of the removal by the owner to remove it at the expense of the owner.
(b) When, under the provisions of any judgment, order, ordecree, in any proceeding, any work is done or materials furnished by anofficial of the town or city or by the order of the official, at the expense ofthe owner, in removing a building, structure, or other thing unlawfullyexisting, the value of the work and material may be recovered in a civil actionbrought in the superior court against the owner, and if any work or materialshave been done or furnished by or at the cost of the town or city, the officialshall cause the action to be brought in the name of the city or town.