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ORDINANCE NO. NS-1518 Page Four aforesaid order, the Director shall file with the Office of the County Recorder a certificate stating that the subject building is within the scope of Santa Ana Municipal Code, Articte XI of Chapter 8, "Earthquake Hazard Reduction in Existing Buildings." The certificate shall also state that the owner thereof has been notified and ordered to structurally analyze the building and to structurally strengthen or demolish it where Compliance within ArticleXI is not exhibited. If the building is either demolished, found not to be within the scope of this Article, or is found to be structurally capable of resisting minimum seismic forces required by this Article, the Director shall file with the Office of the County Recorder a certificate terminating the status of the subject building as being classified within the scope of Santa Ana Municipal Code, Article XI of Chapter 8, "Earthquake Hazard Reduction in Existing Buildings." E. ENFORCEMENT. If the owner or other person in charge and control of the subject building fails to comply with the order within any of the time periods set forth in Section 8-2004 (B), the Director shall order that the entire building be vacated and that the building remain vacated until all required analyses and structural alterations have been completed. Whenever compliance with the aforementioned order issued pursuant to the provisions of this Article has not been accomplished within 90 days after the date the building has been ordered vacated, or such additional time as may have been granted by the Board, the Director may order demolition of any such building in accordance with Chapter 17 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code. SEC. 8-2005. ANALYSIS AND DESIGN A. GENERAL. Every structure within the scope of this Article shall be analyzed and constructed to resist minimum total lateral seismic forces assumed to act nonconcurrently in the direction of each of the main axes of the structure in accordance with the following equation: V = IKCSW The value of "IKCS" need not exceed the values set forth in Table B based on the appropriate priority rating. TABLE B HORIZONTAL FORCE FACTORS BASED ON RATING CLASSIFICATION RATING CLASSIFICATION IKCS I 0.186 II 0.133 III & IV 0.100 B. LATERAL FORCES ON ELEMENTS OF STRUCTURES. Parts or portions of structures shall be analyzed and designed for lateral loads in accordance with Chapter 23 of the Uniform Building Code but no less than the value from the following equation: Fp = ICpSWp For the provision of this subsection, the product of "IS" need not exceed the values as set forth in Table C.