The director is authorized to do the following:
(a) Enforce the provisions of this article and the Act, using either the enforcement mechanisms found in Article I of this chapter, those found in the act and the rules promulgated pursuant to the act, or any combination thereof;
(b) Conduct surveys of ambient air quality;
(c) Evaluate the effect of proposed zoning changes on air pollution and endeavor to coordinate the director’s activities with those of the city plan commission and zoning board in order to achieve optimum management of the air resources of the city;
(d) Cooperate with other governmental agencies concerned with air pollution;
(e) Disseminate information on air pollution, inform and encourage voluntary cooperation by persons and affected groups in the preservation and regulation of the purity of the outdoor atmosphere;
(f) Require the owner, lessee or operator of any source or suspected source to submit air pollution emission data for the purpose of evaluating the air pollution potential of such source or suspected source;
(g) Make recommendations to the commission concerning a rule, determination, variance or order of the commission that affects the city; and
(h) Establish rules and procedures for enforcing this article that are not inconsistent with this article.
(Ord. 12274, § 1, passed 11-28-1995)