(A) (1) The Director of Inspection and Enforcement (also known as the Building Inspector) shall supervise the operation of the Office of Inspection and Enforcement and shall have other duties as assigned by the Director of Planning and Development. The Building Inspector shall supervise the activities of the other inspections, including the Inspector of Minimum Housing, Electrical Inspector and Plumbing Inspector. The Inspectors shall be appointed by the Mayor with the advice and consent of the City Council, unless otherwise provided by statute or ordinance. An Inspector appointed on an interim basis may only hold said office for 180 days. Prior to the expiration of 180 days from said Inspector’s appointment, they must receive the advice and consent of the Council, or their employment by the city is terminated.
(2) The Mayor may remove the Inspector appointed under this Code, on any written charge, whenever the Mayor is of the opinion that the interests of the municipality demand removal. The Mayor shall report the reasons for the removal to the corporate authorities at a meeting to be held not less than five nor more than ten days after the removal. If the Mayor fails or refuses to report to the corporate authorities the reasons for the removal, or if the corporate authorities by a two-thirds vote of all members authorized by law to be elected disapprove of the removal, the Inspector thereupon shall be restored to Inspector. The vote shall be by yeas and nays, which shall be entered upon the journal of the corporate authorities. Upon restoration, the Inspector shall give a new bond and take a new oath of office. No Inspector shall be removed a second time for the same offense.
(B) In addition to all other powers authorized under the provisions of this code of ordinances, including such provisions as may be adopted by reference from time to time, the Director of Inspection and Enforcement shall have concurrent authority with the Department of Police to issue complaints, citations, notices to appear and summons for violations of any of the ordinance provisions listed below:
(1) Chapter 50 (Garbage and Recycling);
(2) Chapter 51 (Plumbing and Sewers);
(3) Chapter 54 (Electricity);
(4) Chapter 93 (Health and Sanitation);
(5) Chapter 94 (Opening Burning);
(6) Chapter 95 (Fair Housing);
(7) Chapter 110 (General Provisions);
(8) Chapter 150 (Construction Regulations);
(9) Chapter 151 (Moving Buildings);
(10) Chapter 152 (Demolition of Buildings or Structures and Requirement of a Fire Protection Guard);
(11) Chapter 153 (Building Operations);
(12) Chapter 154 (Housing Standards);
(13) Chapter 155 (Development in Special Flood Hazard Areas);
(14) Chapter 156 (Smoke Detectors and Carbon Monoxide Detectors);
(15) Chapter 157 (One- and Two-family Dwellings);
(16) Chapter 158 (Existing Buildings);
(17) Chapter 161 (Subdivision Regulations);
(18) Chapter 162 (Zoning Regulations).
(C) The Director of Planning and Development may, as necessary, delegate in writing from time to time the authority of the Director of Inspection and Enforcement to exercise such enforcement powers to other personnel of the Office of Inspection and Enforcement, if the Director of Inspection and Enforcement is not immediately available to perform such duties.
(1980 Code, § 10.404) (Ord. 9215, passed 5-22-2012; Ord. 9285, passed 2-29-2016; Ord. 9344, passed 8-13-2018)