(a) An appeal taken from the requirement, notice, order, decision or the determination made by the administrative official charged with the enforcement of the Building Code shall be filed with the Board within twenty (20) days after the day the decision, notice or order was served. The appeal shall specify the grounds thereof and in such form as may be prescribed by the Board by general rule. The administrative official from whom the appeal is taken shall, upon request by the Board, transmit to it all documents, plans and papers constituting the record of the action from which an appeal was taken.
(b) The Board shall fix a reasonable time for the hearing of an appeal. Public notice shall be given of the hearing and due notice shall be given additionally to the interested parties. The Board may require the party making the appeal to assume the cost of public notice and due notice to interested parties. Upon the hearing, any party may appear in person, by agent or by attorney. The Board shall render a decision within thirty (30) days.
(c) When an appeal from the decision of any official has been taken and filed with the Board, all proceedings and work on the premises concerning which the decision was made shall be stayed unless the official from whom the appeal was taken shall certify to the Board that, by reason of fact stated in the certificate, a stay would cause imminent peril to life or property. In such case, proceedings or work shall not be stayed except by a restraining order which may be granted by the Circuit Court of Wood County, on application, on notice to the officer from whom the appeal is taken and the owner of the premises affected and on due cause shown.
(d) In exercising its powers, the Board may reverse or affirm, wholly or partly, or may modify the order, requirement, decision or determination appealed from as in its opinion ought to be done in the premises, and to that end shall have all the powers of the officer from whom the appeal is taken.
(Ord. 0-1508. Passed 5-12-15.)