These regulations shall be enforced by the Zoning Enforcement Officer who shall be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the Planning and Zoning Commission. In the absence or during the incapacity of the person so appointed, the Chairman of the Planning Zoning Commission may act as, and shall have all of the powers and duties of, the Zoning Enforcement Officer.

The Zoning Enforcement Officer shall have all such authority as is prescribed by the Zoning Enabling Act and as can otherwise by law be conferred upon such official to enforce the Zoning Enabling Act[1] and these regulations. In addition, he/she shall review and decide all applications for zoning permits and certificates of compliance made pursuant to these regulations. He/she may, in his discretion, take an appeal from any decision of the Zoning Board of Appeals in the manner prescribed therefor by the Zoning Enabling Act and may withhold the granting of any zoning permit or certificate of compliance in connection with any use or improvement involved in such decision of the Board pending final judgment or other disposition of the appeal.

Within 10 days following the grant of any special exception or variance, the granting authority shall deliver to the Zoning Enforcement Officer a copy of the writing embodying such special exception or variance. The Zoning Enforcement Officer shall keep each such writing, together with an appropriate index by location of the premises affected, and shall enforce the provisions of such special exception or variance, including any conditions imposed, as in the case of these regulations themselves.

Any person who, having been served with an order to discontinue a violation of any provision of these regulations, fails to comply with such order within 10 days after such service or, when the violation involves grading of land or the removal of earth products, fails to comply with such order immediately or continues to violate any provision of these regulations specified in such order shall be subject to a civil penalty as provided by § 8-12 of the Connecticut General Statutes, as amended.

The owner or agent of any building or premises where a violation of any provision of these regulations has been committed or exists, or the lessee or tenant of an entire building or entire premises where such violation has been committed or exists, or the agent, architect, builder, contractor or any other person who commits, takes part or assists in any such violation who maintains any building or premises in which any such violation exists, shall be fined not less than $10 nor more than $100 for each day that such violation continues; but, if the offense is willful, the person convicted thereof shall be fined not less than $100 nor more than $250 for each day that such violation continues or imprisoned not more than 10 days for each day such violation continues, or both.