There is hereby established the office of Ordinance Enforcement Officer within the Township of New Buffalo, Berrien County, Michigan.
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Board of the Township of New Buffalo as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 10-17-1994 by Ord. No. 941007]
The New Buffalo Township Board is hereby authorized to appoint by resolution at any regular meeting of the Board any person or persons to the office of Ordinance Enforcement Officer for such terms as may be designated in said resolution. The Board may further, by resolution, remove any person from said office, in the discretion of the Board.
The Ordinance Enforcement Officer is hereby authorized to enforce all ordinances of the Township of New Buffalo, whether heretofore or hereafter enacted, and whether such ordinances specifically designated a different official to enforce the same or do not designate any particular enforcing officer. Where a particular officer is so designated in any such ordinance, their authority shall continue in full force and effect and shall in no way be diminished or impaired by the terms of the within chapter, and the authority of the Ordinance Enforcement Officer to enforce the same shall be in addition and supplementary to the authority granted to such other specific officer. An Ordinance Enforcement Officer shall, in the performance of the Officer's duties, be subordinate and responsible to the Supervisor or such other Township Board member as the Supervisor may from time to time designate.
The Ordinance Enforcement Officer's duties herein authorized shall include, among others, the following: investigation of ordinance violations; serving notices of violations; serving appearance tickets as authorized in court or other judicial proceedings to assist in the prosecution of ordinance violators; and such other ordinance-enforcing duties as may be delegated by the Township Supervisor or assigned by the Township Attorney.