This chapter shall be enforced by the Code Enforcement Officer, who shall be appointed by the Village Board of Trustees. No building permit shall be issued or reissued except where all the provisions of this chapter have been complied with. The Code Enforcement Officer shall keep the Planning Board advised of all matters pertaining to the enforcement of this chapter, other than routine duties, and shall submit a monthly report to the Village Board of Trustees enumerating the applications received, inspections made, permits issued or refused and other actions taken.

Whenever a violation of this chapter occurs, any person having knowledge thereof may lay any information in regard thereto before proper magistrate as provided by law, and the procedures thereafter shall be set forth in the Code of Criminal Procedure.

Where sufficient cause exists to believe that the terms of this chapter have been violated and where corrective action has not been taken nor an appropriate variance application to the Zoning Board of Appeals filed, within 10 days of the issuance of a written notice of violation mailed to the record owner(s) of the property where the violation occurs, with a copy to the alleged violator if not the same person, the Code Enforcement Officer, pursuant to Municipal Home Rule Law § 10, Subdivision 4(a), is authorized to issue an appearance ticket directing the alleged violator to appear in a designated local criminal court at a designated future time in connection with the alleged and designated offense.

No building or structure shall be erected, added to or structurally altered until a permit therefor as specified herein has been issued by the Code Enforcement Officer. Except on written order of the Code Enforcement Officer, no such building permit shall be issued for any building where said construction, addition or alteration or use thereof would be in violation of any of the provisions of this chapter.

There shall be submitted with all applications for building permits two copies of a layout or plot plan drawn to scale showing the actual dimensions of the lot to be built upon, the exact size and location on the lot of the building and accessory buildings to be erected and such other information as may be necessary to determine and provide for the enforcement of this chapter.

One copy of such layout or plot plan shall be returned when approved by the Code Enforcement Officer, together with such permit to the applicant, upon the payment of a fee as set by Village Board of Trustees resolution.

Upon approval of the application and upon receipt of the legal fees therefor, the Code Enforcement Officer shall issue a building permit to the applicant upon the form prescribed by him and shall affix his signature or cause his signature to be affixed thereto.

Upon approval of the application, both sets of plans and specifications shall be endorsed with the word "approved." One set of such approved plans and specifications shall be retained in the Village files, and the other set shall be returned to the applicant, together with the building permit, and shall be kept at the building site open to inspection by the Code Enforcement Officer.

If the application, together with plan, specifications and other documents filed therewith, describes proposed work which does not conform to all of the requirements of the applicable building regulations, the Code Enforcement Officer shall disapprove the same and shall return the plans and specifications to the applicant. Upon the request of the applicant, the Code Enforcement Officer shall cause refusal, together with the reasons therefor, to be transmitted to the applicant in writing.

No land shall be occupied or used and no building or other structure erected, altered, extended, enlarged or restored shall be occupied, used or changed in use until a certificate of compliance shall have been issued by the Code Enforcement Officer stating that the building, other structure or proposed use thereof complies with the provisions of this zoning chapter of the Village. Vacated existing commercial properties may not be used or occupied until a certificate has been issued to ensure that the new use or occupancy is permitted.

All certificates of compliance for new or structurally altered buildings or structures shall be applied for coincident with the application for a building permit therefor. Such certificate of compliance shall be issued within 30 days after the erection or alteration shall have been approved as complying with the provisions of this chapter.