The office of Code Enforcement Officer is hereby
established in and for the Town of Liberty, Sullivan County, New York,
who shall be appointed by the Town Board of the Town of Liberty at
a compensation to be fixed and determined from time to time by the
Town Board.
In the absence of the Code Enforcement Officer
or in case of the Code Enforcement Officer's inability to act for
any reason, the Town Board may designate a person to act on behalf
of the Code Enforcement Officer and to exercise all the powers conferred
upon the Code Enforcement Officer by this chapter and any other law,
ordinance, code, rule or regulation.
[Amended 9-2-2014 by L.L.
No. 2-2014]
The Town Board may appoint one or more additional
code enforcement officers, as and when the Town Board deems appropriate,
and in the event more than one code enforcement officer has been appointed,
each code enforcement officer so appointed shall exercise and perform
only such portion or portions of the duties of the office of Code
Enforcement Officer as the Town Board may specifically delegate to
him or her. The compensation of each code enforcement officer shall
be fixed by the Town Board.
A Code Enforcement Officer or an officer or
employee of the Building Department shall not engage in any activity
inconsistent with the Code Enforcement Officer's duties or with the
interests of the Building Department, nor shall the Code Enforcement
Officer, during the term of his or her employment, be engaged directly
or indirectly in any building business or in the furnishing of labor,
materials, supplies or appliances for, or the supervision of, the
construction, alteration, demolition or maintenance of a building
or the preparation of plans or specifications therefor within the
Town of Liberty, except that this provision shall not prohibit any
employee from engaging in any such activities in connection with the
construction of a building or structure owned by the employee for
the employee's own personal use and occupancy or for the use and occupancy
of members of the employee's immediate family and not constructed
for sale.