A. Code Enforcement Officer Appointed: Pursuant to the authority granted by Utah Code Annotated section 10-11-1, there is hereby established the position of Code Enforcement Officer. Until another person is designated, the building inspector shall act as the Code Enforcement Officer. More than one person may be appointed to act as Code Enforcement Officer.
B. Duties: The Code Enforcement Officer shall perform all functions necessary to enforce the provisions of this chapter and examine and investigate, as often as needed, real property for:
1. The growth and spread of injurious and noxious weeds;
2. Garbage and refuse;
3. A public nuisance; or
4. An illegal object or structure.
C. Written Notice Of Nuisance Or Objectionable Condition: If the Code Enforcement Officer conducts an examination and investigation in accordance with subsection B of this section and finds a violation of this chapter, the officer shall deliver written notice of the examination and investigation by serving written notice to a property owner of record according to the records of the County Recorder in accordance with subsection D1 of this section, and by serving written notice in accordance with subsection D2 of this section to a non-owner occupant of the property or another person responsible for the property who is not the owner of record, including a manager or agent of the owners, if the property owner is not an occupant of the property.
D. Service Of Notice: The Code Enforcement Officer may serve the written notice:
1. In person or by mail to the property owner of record, if mailed to the last-known address of the owner according to the records of the County Recorder; or
2. In person or by mail to a non-owner occupant or another person responsible for the property who is not the owner of record, if mailed to the property address.
E. Notice Requirements: In the written notice described in subsection C of this section, the Code Enforcement Officer shall identify the property of record according to the records of the County Recorder; describe the property and the nature and results of the examination and investigation conducted in accordance with this section; and require the property owner, occupant, or, if applicable, another person responsible for the property to eradicate or destroy and remove any identified item examined and investigated under subsection B of this section, and comply with this requirement within the time period designated by the Code Enforcement Officer but no less than ten (10) days after the day on which notice is delivered in person or post-marked.
F. Injurious And Noxious Weeds Notice: For a notice described in subsection C of this section of injurious and noxious weeds, the Code Enforcement Officer is not required to make more than one notice for each annual season of weed growth for weeds growing on a property.
G. Perjury: The Code Enforcement Officer shall serve the notice required under subsection C of this section under penalty of perjury. (Ord. 16-06, 4-12-2016)