(a) The Property Maintenance Officer shall bear responsibility for interpretation of this chapter and the issuance of all notices pursuant thereto.
(b) Determinations of the Property Maintenance Officer in conjunction with administration of this chapter may be appealed to the Planning Commission of the Municipality. The Planning Commission of the Municipality should be the local administrative body hearing appeals from rulings of the Property Maintenance Officer. An appeal to the Planning Commission must be made within fourteen days of the ruling being appealed. The local appeal shall stay all rulings and actions being appealed, pending a decision by the Planning Commission unless it has been certified by the Property Maintenance Officer that there is an imminent and substantial danger to life and property. Under the circumstance of imminent and substantial danger, proceedings shall not be stayed other than by a court of record on application of due cause shown. Appeals shall not be deemed to confer authority upon the appellant to resume actions held to the contrary to the Codified Ordinances of the Municipality, by the Property Maintenance Officer.
(c) Appeals from decisions of the Property Maintenance Officer shall be submitted for consideration on forms provided by the Municipality, and shall be accompanied by a nonrefundable fee of fifty dollars ($50.00) to defray administrative costs of processing, including either notices to be sent to affected property owners within 200 feet of the property in question or a public hearing announcement in a local newspaper of general circulation, and other expenses of perfecting the record of the appeals process.
(Ord. 1990-04. Passed 6-19-90.)