A. Whenever
any officer or employee of the county is authorized to enter any building
or premises for the purpose of making an inspection to enforce any
ordinance, the officer or employee may enter such building or premises
at all reasonable times to inspect the same; provided, that the officer
or employee shall effect entry in the manner provided herein, except
in emergency situations, or when consent of the person having charge
or control of such building or premises has been otherwise obtained.
B. If the
building or premises to be inspected is occupied, the authorized officer
or employee shall first present proper credentials and demand entry;
and if such building or premises is unoccupied, the officer or employee
shall first make a reasonable effort to locate the owner or other
person having charge or control of the building or premises and demand
entry. If consent to such entry is not given, the authorized officer
or employee shall have recourse to every remedy provided by law to
secure entry.
C. This
section shall be controlling over any other ordinance or part of an
ordinance on the same subject, whether heretofore or hereafter adopted,
unless such ordinance or part of an ordinance provides differently
by an express reference to this section. Notwithstanding any other
county ordinance, whether heretofore or hereafter adopted, it shall
not be a violation or this section to refuse or fail to consent to
an entry for inspection.
(Prior code § 1.9; Ord. 5006-B, 1999)