A. Except when an appeals procedure is otherwise specifically set forth in this code, any person excepting to the granting, denial, suspension, or revocation of a permit applied for or held pursuant to any of the provisions of this code or other city ordinance, or to any administrative decision made by any official of the city, if the granting, denial, suspension, or revocation of such permit or the determination of such administrative decision involves the exercise of administrative discretion or personal judgement exercised pursuant to any of the provisions of this code or other city ordinance, may appeal in writing to the council by filing with the city clerk a written notice of such appeal.
B. No appeal may be taken to any such administrative decision made by an official of the city pursuant to any of the provisions of this chapter unless such decision to appeal has been first taken up with the department head concerned and with the city manager, and each such official has not adjusted the matter to the appellant's satisfaction.
C. No right of appeal to the council from any administrative decision made by an official of the city pursuant to any of the provisions of this code or other city ordinance shall exist when such decision is ministerial and thus does not involve the exercise of administrative discretion or personal judgement exercised pursuant to any of the provisions of this code or other city ordinance, whether the administrative decision involves the granting, denial, suspension, or revocation of a permit or any other administrative decision. Also, there shall be no such right of appeal with regard to law enforcement activities involving state law.
(Ord. 3 § 1 (part), 1991: prior code § 2.04.100)