(A) Creation and amendment of rules. The Director of the Code Hearing Unit, subject to the approval of the Legislative Committee, shall have the power to create and amend rules for the fair and efficient conduct of administrative hearings pursuant to the county code.
(B) Scope of rules. These rules shall apply to the conduct of all cases before the Code Hearing Unit.
(C) Supremacy of ordinances. Nothing in these rules shall act to override, restrict or relax the procedural requirements or provisions of the applicable provisions of the county code. In the event of a conflict between provisions of these rules and the county code, the county code shall take precedence.
(D) Effective date. These rules shall be in full force and effect upon the passage of “An Ordinance Amending the Madison County Code by Adding Chapter 39: Administrative Adjudication of Ordinance Violations” and promulgating “Rules for the Conduct of Administrative Hearings.”
(E) Parties. An action for administrative adjudication shall be brought in the name of the county as “petitioner.” The alleged violator of an ordinance shall be referred to as the “respondent.”
(1993 Code, § 39.25) (Ord. 98-17, passed 11-18-1998; Ord. 2000-04, passed 3-15-2000)