2017-07 Ordinance Amending City Code Chapters 7, 11, 25, 26, 27, 31, 32, 34, 35, 41, 44, 48, 49, 49.1, 63, 67, 68, 70, 70.1

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4. BUILDING INSPECTIONS. Whenever in said Code reference is made to the code official such shall be taken to mean and shall be construed to refer to the Manager of Building Inspections or his designee as fully as if said designation was set out therein in lieu of such words and whenever reference is therein made to the department of building inspections or to the department of mechanical inspection or similar reference such shall be taken to mean and shall be construed to refer to the Inspections Division of the Economic and Community Development Department as fully as if said designation was set out therein in lieu of such words. Section 19. That Section 4 of Chapter 70 of the City Code of the City of Decatur be, and the same is hereby, amended and modified so that said Section 4 of Chapter 70 shall provide as follows: 4. NEIGHBORHOOD STANDARDS. Whenever in said Code or in the Chapter reference is made to the building official or to the code official such shall be taken to mean and shall be construed to refer to the Neighborhood Standards Administrator or his designee as fully as if said designation was set out therein in lieu of such words and whenever reference is therein made to the department of building inspection or similar reference such shall be taken to mean and shall be construed to refer to the Inspections Division of the Economic and Community Development Department as fully as if said designation was set out therein in lieu of such words. Section 20. That Section 6 of Chapter 70.1 of the City Code of the City of Decatur be, and the same is hereby, amended and modified so that said Section 6 of Chapter 70.1 shall provide as follows: 6. ENFORCEMENT. This Chapter and the Code, as modified thereby, shall be administered by the Building Inspection Manager through the Inspection Division of the Economic and Community Development Department which, among other things, is authorized hereby to cause stop orders to be issued and enforced as to any work not in conformance and compliance with the provisions thereof, or of the reasonable rules and regulations promulgated to implement the same. Section 21. That the City Clerk be, and she is hereby, authorized and directed to cause the provisions hereof to be appropriately set out in the City Code and to cause the same to be published in pamphlet form according to law.