The City Manager (or designee) shall be the Zoning Enforcement Officer. The Zoning Enforcement Officer (or designee) shall exercise the following powers and duties:

   1.   The Zoning Enforcement Officer shall have all enforcement powers, including but not limited to the investigation of complaints of zoning violations, issuance of notices to violators, and the preparation and submission to the City Attorney of reports of those zoning violations which continue unabated after exhaustion of reasonable administrative remedies toward their abatement, for such legal action as the facts of each such report may require.

   2.   In all cases where the City commences court action, the Zoning Enforcement Officer shall cooperate with the City Attorney by performing such additional investigative work as the City Attorney shall require.

   3.   The Zoning Enforcement Officer shall attend the meetings of the Planning and Zoning Commission and the Board of Adjustment as requested by those bodies, shall investigate and review all cases presented to the Board of Adjustment, and shall advise that body on those cases upon request.

   4.   In the event the City Attorney, after analysis of the report, institutes legal proceedings, the Zoning Enforcement Officer will cooperate fully with the City Attorney in the perfecting of such proceedings.