ORDINANCE NO. 1969
AN ORDINANCE ENACTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF SALISBURY, MARYLAND, TO ENACT CHAPTER 2.14 - DEPARTMENT OF NEIGHBORHOOD
SERVICES AND CODE COMPLIANCE.
WHEREAS, the City Council desires to create a Department of Building, Permitting and Inspection and a Department of Neighborhood Services and Code Compliance by splitting the functions currently assigned to the Department of Building, Housing and Zoning; and
WHEREAS, the Salisbury City Council intends to amend the appropriate Sections of the City Code to reflect the reassignment of duties and authority to each department.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ENACTED AND ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SALISBURY, MARYLAND, in regular session, that Section 2.14 is hereby enacted as follows:
Title 2
ADMINISTRATION AND PERSONNEL
Chapters:
2.04 Ethics
2.08 Civil Emergencies
2.12 Department
of Building, Housing and Zoning Permitting and Inspections
2.14 Department
of Neighborhood Services and Code Compliance
2.20 Human Resources Department
2.24 Personnel Rules and Regulations
2.28 Planning and Zoning Commission
2.32 Purchases and Sales
2.36 Disposition of Surplus or Unused Property
2.40 Disposition of Person Property
CHAPTER
2.14
DEPARTMENT
OF NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES AND CODE COMPLIANCE
Section
2.14.010 Establishment - Purpose.
Section
2.14.020 Director of Neighborhood
Services and
Code Compliance.
Section
2.14.030 Powers and duties of
director and department.
Section
2.14.040 Director responsible to
mayor - Inspections - Issuance of \
warrants for violations.
Section
2.14.050 Department procedure -
Hearings.
Section
2.14.060 Establishment of rules
and regulations - Recommendations
to mayor.
Section
2.14.070 Assignment of additional
duties.
Section
2.14.010 Establishment - Purpose
There
is established a department of neighborhood services and code compliance for
the purpose of enforcement of the city’s housing and zoning codes to assure
compliance with zoning, property maintenance and occupancy provisions.
Section
2.14.020 Director of department of
neighborhood services and code compliance.
There
shall be department of neighborhood services and code compliance headed by a
director. The director of the department
of neighborhood services and code compliance shall be appointed by the Mayor
with the advice and consent of a majority of the full Council and shall serve
continuously unless terminated pursuant to Section SC2.10. The compensation for the director shall be
determined by a majority of the full council.
All subordinate personnel shall be appointed as provided in Section
SC3-4.C of the City Charter.
Section
2.14.030 Powers and duties of director and department.
Under
the authority of the Mayor and the direct supervision of the City
Administrator, the director of the department of neighborhood services and code
compliance is directed to enforce the
city’s housing and zoning codes and to
carry out and perform all functions of the city as provided by such housing and zoning codes. The department of neighborhood services and
code compliance shall have all the power and authority necessary to carry out
its duties.
Section
2.14.040 Director responsible to mayor - Inspections - Issuance of warrants for
violations.
The
director of the department of neighborhood services and code compliance shall be responsible and report directly to
City Administrator under the authority of the mayor. The department of neighborhood services and
code compliance shall make all necessary inspections to determine whether the
housing or zoning codes have been or are being violated. The director of department of neighborhood
services and code compliance shall promptly and faithfully execute or secure
the issuance of all writs (warrants) for any violations of the various codes
mentioned above and shall attend any court having the enforcement of any such
violations.
Section
2.14.050 Department procedure - Hearings.
The
director of the department of neighborhood services and code compliance shall follow such procedures, including
conducting formal or informal hearings for persons alleged to have violated
either the housing or zoning codes, as
shall best promote efficient administration, justice and good order and shall
not be inconsistent with law or the Charter of the city.
Section
2.14.060 Establishment of rules and regulations - Recommendations to mayor.
The
director of the department of neighborhood services and code compliance shall establish such rules and regulations as
shall, from time to time, be necessary to the performance of the duties and
functions of the department of neighborhood services and code compliance pursuant to this chapter. The director of the department of
neighborhood services and code compliance shall recommend necessary changes
which he deems desirable in the provisions of this chapter; other provisions of
law; the Charter; the housing and zoning codes; and ordinances or resolutions
affecting the department of neighborhood services and code compliance for
submission to and approval by the mayor.
2.14.070
Assignment of additional duties.
In
addition to its duties as provided in Sections 2.14.030 and 2.14.040, the
department of neighborhood services and code compliance shall perform any and
all other duties which may be assigned to it by the mayor, in writing or
otherwise, and the department of neighborhood services and code compliance
shall have all power and authority necessary to carry out such additional
assigned duties.
AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED AND ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SALISBURY, MARYLAND, that the amendment set forth in this Ordinance shall take effect from and after the date of its final passage.
THE ABOVE ORDINANCE was introduced at a meeting of the Council on the 28th day of November, 2005, and having been published as required by law, in the meantime, was finally passed at its meeting on the ____ day of December, 2005.
Brenda J. Colegrove Michael
P. Dunn,
City Clerk President
of the City Council
of
the City of Salisbury
Approved by me this
day of 2005.
_________________________________________
Barrie P. Tilghman, Mayor of the City of Salisbury