9.1.1

Appointment. This Ordinance shall be enforced by the City Engineer or delegate appointed by the Board of Aldermen.

9.1.2

Duties. The City Engineer shall be responsible for interpreting and administering the provisions of this Ordinance and shall have primary responsibility for the enforcement of this Ordinance by means of the duties specified herein. Without limiting the generality of the previous sentence, the duties and authority of the City Engineer shall be as follows:

1)

Provide administrative support to the Planning and Zoning Commission, including maintaining the records thereof. Specifically, the City Engineer shall provide the Planning and Zoning Commission with review, analysis, reports, and recommendations on:

a)

Petitions for rezoning (zoning map amendments);

b)

Proposed text amendments to this Ordinance;

c)

Conditional use permit applications; and

d)

Planned developments.

As needed, the City Engineer shall obtain and compile the comments from other City Staff with respect to the above subjects.

2)

Determine whether applications for building permits comply with applicable requirements of this Ordinance.

3)

Administer the conditional use permit provisions contained in Section 8.

4)

Provide administrative support to the Board of Adjustment, including maintaining records thereof. This includes receiving, filing, and forwarding to the Board of Adjustment, all information constituting the record upon which actions appealed from are taken.

5)

Supervise the preparation of updates to the official zoning map.

6)

Except as otherwise provided for in this Ordinance, notify in writing any person responsible for violating any of the provisions of this Ordinance, indicating the nature of the violation and ordering the necessary corrective action.

7)

Cause the cessation of any erection, construction, reconstruction, alteration, conversion, maintenance or use in violation of this Ordinance by issuing a stop work or stop use order.

8)

Refer any violation of this Ordinance to the City Attorney for prosecution or other appropriate action when deemed necessary.

The Planning and Zoning Commission of the City of Sunset Hills, which has been duly created by the Board of Aldermen. The Planning and Zoning Commission responsibilities, with respect to this Ordinance, shall include:

1)

To review and report to the Board of Aldermen its recommendations on petitions to amend the official zoning map (e.g., rezoning).

2)

To review and report to the Board of Aldermen its recommendations on proposed text amendments to the regulations contained in this Ordinance.

3)

To review and report to the Board of Aldermen its recommendations on conditional use permit applications.

4)

To review and recommend approval or disapproval of preliminary and final "development plans" to the Board of Aldermen.

5)

To review and report to the Board of Aldermen its recommendations on proposed planned developments.

6)

Other such responsibilities as delegated by the Board of Aldermen in order to effectuate the provisions of this Ordinance.

No building permit shall be issued until the application for such permit has been determined by the City Engineer to be in compliance with the provisions of this Ordinance or with a written order from the Board of Adjustment in the form of an administrative review decision on an appeal or variation as provided in Section 10.3 of this Ordinance.

9.4.1

Construction and use must comply with approved plans and permits. All permits issued on the basis of plans and/or applications approved by the Board of Aldermen, Planning and Zoning Commission and/or the City Engineer authorize only the use, arrangement, and/or construction set forth in such approved plans and/or applications and no other use, arrangement, or construction.

9.5.1

Procedure to prevent violations. The City Engineer, in addition to remedies provided in this Section, may recommend to the Board of Aldermen instituting appropriate civil action or proceeding to prevent any unlawful erection, construction, reconstruction, alteration, conversion, maintenance or use to restrain, correct or abate such violation, to prevent the occupancy of such building, structure or land, or to prevent any illegal act, conduct, business or use in or about such premises.

9.5.2

Penalties. The owner or general agent of the building or premises where a violation of any provision of this Ordinance has been committed or shall exist, or the lessee or tenant of an entire building or entire premises where such violation has been committed or shall exist, or the owner, general agent, lessee or tenant or any part of the building or premises in which such violation has been committed or shall exist, or the general agent, architect, builder, contractor or any other person who commits, takes part or assists in any violation or who maintains any building or premises in which any such violation shall exist shall be guilty of an ordinance violation, punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) and costs, or imprisonment for a period not to exceed ninety (90) days or by both such fine and imprisonment for each and every day that such violation continues.