This code shall be administered by a Code Enforcement
Officer and the Code Enforcement Department, and all applications
shall be submitted to that Department. A Code Enforcement Officer
shall perform the following duties:
A. Keep records of applications for permits.
B. Keep record of all permits issued with a notation
of all special conditions involved.
C. File and safely keep copies of all plans submitted
and the same shall form a part of the records of their office and
shall be available for use of the Town Board and other officials.
D. Provide interpretations of this code's requirements
to the public. Whenever such interpretation is made in writing, a
copy shall be filed with a Code Enforcement Officer.
E. Investigate violations of this chapter.
It shall be the responsibility of the Recording
Secretary of the Planning Board and Zoning Board of Appeals to submit
requests for review to the County Planning Department, whenever such
review is required by state law. No Board shall approve any matter
where the County Planning Department has recommended disapproval,
except by a 3/4 super-majority vote, upon written findings by the
Board why it was not following the recommendation of the County Planning
Department.
A Code Enforcement Officer is hereby empowered
to cause any building, other structure or tract of land to be inspected
and examined and to order in writing the remedying of any condition
found to exist therein or thereat, which is in violation of any provision
of this code. After any such order has been served, no work shall
proceed on any building, other structure or tract of land covered
by such order, except to comply with such order.
It shall be the duty of a Code Enforcement Officer,
Town Engineer, Town Attorney, Town Prosecutor and other officials
designated by the Town Board to enforce the regulations and restrictions
provided by this code. All such officials are hereby authorized to
take all steps necessary to enforce the provisions of this code, and
any other building or use code adopted by the Town, to the fullest
extent authorized by state and local law, including, but not limited
to the issuance of cease and desist orders, stop-work orders, the
filing of complaints and informations with the Town Court and other
courts, and the initiation of any civil or criminal proceeding to
enforce this code.
No application shall be reviewed until it is
complete. Whichever Board receives an application first, whether for
purposes of review only or approval, it shall refuse to consider the
application until complete.
When an application is returned to an applicant
as incomplete, the time lines for review or approval in this code
shall not commence until a complete application is received. All applications
must be received no later than 10 working days prior to the meeting
of the Board which will first review the application. For any application
which is received less than 10 working days prior to said meeting,
the application will be heard at the next following regularly scheduled
meeting, and all time lines within this code for review, calling of
public hearings and action upon the application shall be deemed to
commence on the date of said next following regularly scheduled meeting.