[Adopted 7-27-1970 as Art. 1, Ch. A, of the 1969 Revised
Ordinances, amended in its entirety 5-28-1996 by Ord. No. 19-1996]
There shall be appointed by the Mayor and Board
of Aldermen of the Town of Dover, within 30 days after the approval
and final adoption of this article, and annually thereafter on the
first day of January in each year, an officer to be known as the "Uniform
Construction Code Officer," who shall be or has been either an architect,
carpenter, mason or other building mechanic with five years' experience.
The term of office of every person so appointed shall expire on the
first day of January following the month of his appointment. His duties
shall be such as devolve upon him as Uniform Construction Code Officer
by the laws of this state and this and other ordinances of the Town
of Dover.
Said Uniform Construction Code Officer shall,
before he enters upon the discharge of his duties, take and subscribe
to, upon oath before the Town Clerk, faithfully and impartially perform
the duties of said office and shall give a bond to the town in its
corporate name, to be approved by the Town Counsel or Attorney, in
the sum of $1,000, with at least two sureties, conditioned for the
faithful performance of the duties of said office, said bond to be
presented to and accepted by the Mayor and Board of Aldermen before
said Uniform Construction Code Officer shall enter upon the duties
of said office.
Said Uniform Construction Code Officer is charged
with the performance of all services necessary to ensure the strict
enforcement of the ordinances of the town now existing, or that may
hereinafter be adopted, relating to the erection, construction or
alteration of buildings therein. He shall keep a record of all applications
for permits and preserve and properly index such drawings as may be
filed of all plans on which permits shall be granted.
After any permit shall have been granted as
aforesaid, it shall be the duty of said Uniform Construction Code
Officer diligently to inspect said building while in the course of
erection and to see that it is constructed in conformity with the
ordinances of the town relating thereto. Said Uniform Construction
Code Officer shall also keep a full and complete record of all buildings
in the course of erection or alteration, their style and proposed
uses and make report of the same in writing once a month to the Mayor
and Board of Aldermen.
For the purpose of ascertaining all violations
of ordinances designed for the more effectual prevention of fires,
it shall be lawful for him, the Uniform Construction Code Officer,
whenever he shall have good and sufficient reason to believe that
any such ordinances are being violated, to enter into or upon lots
or buildings for the examination of hoistways, trapdoors, fireplaces,
hearths, chimneys, stoves and pipes thereto, receptacles for ashes,
ovens, boilers, heaters and chemical apparatus, which are dangerous
as tending to cause or promote fires; and it shall be his duty to
direct the owner or occupant of any defective building, by notice
signed by said Uniform Construction Code Officer, to correct the same
in such manner and within such reasonable time as he may deem necessary.
He shall also examine at reasonable hours in the daytime and it shall
be lawful for him for that purpose to enter into and upon all buildings
and places where any gunpowder, saltpeter, hemp, flax, straw, hay,
rushes, firewood, boards, shingles, shavings or other combustible
materials be lodged; and whenever he shall discover any violations
of any such ordinances or anything that is detrimental to public safety,
he shall notify in writing the owner or occupants of the building
wherein such unlawful or unsafe conditions exist to immediately cause
the same to be corrected; and it shall be the duty of the person so
notified to comply with such notice, and in case of neglect or refusal
of the owner or occupant of such building, in possession of such combustible
materials, to correct said unlawful or unsafe conditions and to alter,
remove or secure the same within the time and in the manner directed
in said notice to the person offending.
Nothing in this article shall be construed to
conflict with the appointment of any other employee of the municipality
to the office of Uniform Construction Code Officer, who shall be or
has been either an architect, carpenter, mason or other building mechanic
with five years' experience who may hold both offices at the same
time, in which case he shall devote such time to the performance of
his duties thereof as may be required to effectually enforce this
article.
