A. Chief Building Official: The chief building official ("building official") is hereby charged with the administration and enforcement of the provisions of this title.
1. General Enforcement: The building official and other designated officers shall enforce all the provisions of this title. The designated official, in coordination with the building official as necessary, shall inspect or cause to be inspected all structures or sites in the course of construction, alteration, or repair and any change in the use of the land. If, in the course of such inspection or otherwise, the designated official determines that any such construction, alteration or repair, or lack thereof, or that any such use of the land is in violation of the provisions of this title, the designated official may issue, in coordination with the building official as necessary a written order to the person responsible therefor, ordering and directing such person to cease and desist construction, alteration, repair or use, or to take affirmative action such as repair or maintain, or other appropriate action consistent with this title.
2. Report Violations: The building official shall report a violation of this title to the city's legal department for prosecution and may make complaint thereof before the court or courts having jurisdiction of such violation. The legal department may bring a civil action for the abatement of any nuisance existing in violation of this title.
3. Assistance; Law Enforcement: The building official may call for the assistance of law enforcement personnel whenever, in the building official's opinion, such assistance is necessary in the investigation of a suspected violation of this title, including administration of the necessary warrants, signed permission forms, or signed waiver provisions for interior inspections.
4. Establish Rules And Regulations: The building official may establish reasonable rules and regulations necessary or desirable in the administration of this title. Three (3) copies of such rules and regulations shall be filed with the city recorder and such rules and regulations shall become effective when so filed.
B. Fees: The mayor may, by resolution or executive order, prescribe an exact payment of reasonable fees to cover the expense of processing applications for designation and reviewing certificates of historic appropriateness. A reasonable fee for appealing an order of repair issued pursuant to section 17-5-5 of this title, for requesting a determination of economic hardship, or hearing appeals thereof, or for a request for demolition of a historic resource, shall be incorporated into the fee schedule.
(Ord. 2013-17, 4-2-2013)