CHAPTER 34: CODE HEARING UNIT

Section

General Provisions

   34.01   Establishment

   34.02   Jurisdiction

   34.03   Combined Code Hearing Unit authorized

   34.04   Director and hearing officers; appointment

   34.05   Order and other pleading forms

   34.06   Hearing officers; powers and duties

   34.07   Hearing officers; training requirements

   34.08   Rules and regulations; available for public inspection

Administration

   34.20   Initiating administrative adjudication proceedings

   34.21   Subpoenas

   34.22   Election of remedies

   34.23   Administrative hearing not exclusive

   34.24   Notice

   34.25   Administrative hearings

   34.26   Ex parte disclosures

   34.27   Post-hearing motions

   34.28   Compliance bond

   34.29   Waiver, suspension, or reduction of fines

   34.30   Enforcement of hearing officer’s order

   34.31   Fines payable to the County Treasurer

   34.32   Review of final orders

   34.33   Additional rules, regulations, and provisions

   34.34   Regulations for the conduct of administrative hearings

   34.99   Penalty

Cross-reference:

   Building and Property Maintenance Code, see Chapter 154

   Subdivision Code, see Chapter 155

   Zoning, see Chapter 157

GENERAL PROVISIONS

§ 34.01 ESTABLISHMENT.

   There is hereby created a code hearing unit which shall be known as the “County Code Hearing Unit” and authorized to conduct administrative adjudication proceedings for the county, its departments, and its officers.

(Prior Code, 1 TCC 6-1)

§ 34.02 JURISDICTION.

   The Code Hearing Unit is authorized to establish a system of administrative adjudications for the enforcement of all provisions of the County Code, except those preempted by state law or county ordinance.

(Prior Code, 1 TCC 6-2)

§ 34.03 COMBINED CODE HEARING UNIT AUTHORIZED.

   The Code Hearing Unit may be combined with any adjacent unit of local government to create a combined Code Hearing Unit for the efficient and just adjudication of all ordinance violation cases for the various units of local government.

(Prior Code, 1 TCC 6-3)

§ 34.04 DIRECTOR AND HEARING OFFICERS; APPOINTMENT.

   The Chairperson of the County Board, with the advice and consent of the County Board, shall appoint a Director and one or more Hearing Officers for the purpose in this section. A Hearing Officer may not be a Code Enforcement Officer or other law enforcement officer. The Director of the Code Hearing Unit shall have the power to create and amend regulations for the fair and efficient conduct of administrative hearings pursuant to this chapter.

(Prior Code, 1 TCC 6-4)

§ 34.05 ORDER AND OTHER PLEADING FORMS.

   The Director of the Code Hearing Unit shall have the authority to create and require the use of preprinted order and related pleading forms in the hearing process.

(Prior Code, 1 TCC 6-5)