All personnel of PPWES acting under the authority of the Director of PPWES shall be subject to the following limitations:
(a) There shall at all times be a registered civil engineer acting under the authority of the Director of PPWES to perform any civil engineering functions which are required to be performed by the Road Commissioner for which a license, permit, or registration is required.
(b) This article shall not permit the occupant of a consolidated, integrated, or separated office to practice any profession or trade for the practice of which a license, permit, or registration is required, without that license, permit, or registration.
(c) All personnel acting under authority of the Director of PPWES, including the heads of units within departments and formed from units of County departments (including but not limited to the County Surveyor), shall possess the particular qualifications required by the statutes governing the provision of services provided by those departments, including standards of education and experience that assure competence appropriate for the direction of the departments or the local administration of County functions.
(d) Employees who perform Local Enforcement Agency (LEA) functions as designated by the California Public Resources Code (PRC) 43200 et seq. will not be considered within the Department of PPWES, but will instead be within the oversight and supervision of the Director of Environmental Health and the County Administrator (CAO). The Director of PPWES shall not conduct a performance review, discipline or terminate any employees of the Division of Environmental Health who are assigned LEA functions and responsibilities. The Director of PPWES shall not be involved in any enforcement responsibilities of the LEA. Should any LEA employee have job duties split between a position within the Department of PPWES and LEA, he or she shall only discuss LEA issues with other LEA employees, employees of the CAO's Office, the Director of Environmental Health or the CAO and shall not discuss LEA issues with the Director of PPWES. (§ 2, Ord. 1205, eff. January 13, 1997, as amended by § 1, Ord. 1206, eff. February 27, 1997, and § 6, Ord. 1444, eff. August 14, 2014)