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(a) Penalties and enforcement.
(1) Any individual, firm, partnership, corporation or association of any kind engaged in the roofing business within the unincorporated areas of Greenville County without a permit as required by this division shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned for a period of time not to exceed 30 days. Each such individual, firm, partnership, corporation or association of any kind shall be deemed guilty of a separate offense for each and every day or portion thereof during which any violation of any of the provisions of this division is committed or continued.
(2) The sheriff’s office and the codes department shall be responsible for enforcing the provisions of this division.
(b) Reserved.
(c) Suspension of permit. Upon conviction of any permittee for the illegal dumping of roofing materials, the sheriff’s office shall immediately suspend the permit issued to the convicted permittee and shall not renew such permit for a period of not less than 12 months from the date of conviction.
(d) Notice of suspension. The sheriff’s office shall notify the permittee in writing by mail to the address as shown on permittee’s application or such subsequent address as designated by permittee that the permittee’s permit has been suspended. The cause for such suspension shall be set forth in the notice.
(1976 Code, § 9-163) (Ord. 2547, §§ 9, 10, 12, passed 3-1-1994)
Any permittee whose permit is suspended for more than 12 months shall have the right to appeal such action to the county administrator or such person designated by the county administrator for such purposes. The appeal must be filed within 5 days of the date on the notice of suspension. Once an appeal has been filed, the county administrator or such person designated by the county administrator for such purposes shall schedule a hearing upon not less than 5 days’ notice, which notice shall state the time and place for the hearing. The county administrator or such person designated by the county administrator for such purposes shall not be authorized to reduce any period of suspension to less than 12 months. The decision of the county administrator or such person designated by the county administrator for such purposes shall be final.
(1976 Code, § 9-164) (Ord. 2547, § 11, passed 3-1-1994)
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