The City Clerk of the City or one (1) or more other appointees, agencies or entities as may be designated by the Board of Aldermen is hereby designated as the Code Enforcement Official who shall have the duties of enforcing this Chapter and is hereby specifically empowered and directed:

No land shall be used and no building erected, converted, enlarged, reconstructed, or structurally altered after the effective date of this Chapter shall be occupied in whole or in part until a certificate of occupancy is issued by the Code Enforcement Official stating that the use or building complies with the requirements of this Chapter, the Building Codes adopted in Chapter 500, and the ordinances of the City. Issuance of the certificate of occupancy may include prior review by the officials designated by the City Clerk or contracted by the City to administer the City Building Code.

Certificates of occupancy for newly built or altered premises shall be applied for coincidentally with the application for a building permit and shall be issued within ten (10) days after the lawful erection, reconstruction or alteration is completed. A record of all building permits and certificates of occupancy shall be kept on file in the City office and copies shall be furnished on request to any person having a proprietary or tenancy interest in the land, building or premises affected.

Whenever the sale of a building results in a change in the ownership or occupancy, or whenever the premises are rented to any first or successor lessee, or whenever there is a change in use of the premises and more than one hundred eighty (180) days has elapsed since the date of the last occupancy inspection of the premises, the buyer or lessee shall be required to possess an occupancy permit in accordance with the provisions of this Section.

The occupancy permit shall not be issued by the Code Enforcement Official until the building or premises has been inspected and the inspector has affixed to the application for such permit an approval that the proposed use and any buildings or structures involved comply in all respects with the provisions of the approved building permit or the Building Codes. If the Code Enforcement Official finds that the use is in compliance with all applicable provisions of this Section, the Building Codes, and all other applicable City ordinances, he or she may issue said occupancy permit.

The Code Enforcement Official may issue a temporary, thirty-day occupancy permit for a part of a commercial building or for temporary occupancy of a residential premises pending completion of construction or repairs provided the proposed use complies with all applicable requirements of the City ordinances

The inspection fee established in Section 400.500 of this Chapter shall include one (1) reinspection, if required as a result of deficiencies noted in the original inspection. Additional and subsequent inspections required by the Code Enforcement Official in order to verify compliance shall be made only after deposit of a new fee.

No provision contained in this Section shall be interpreted as restricting the right of a seller or lessor to make application and pay the fee for an inspection and occupancy permit.

The fees and deposits for applications, filings, City review, and exceptions and appeals therefrom pertaining to the City's regulation of land use are established as follows:

Fee Administration.

In case any building or structure is erected, constructed, reconstructed, altered, converted or maintained, or any building, structure or land is used in violation of this Chapter or of any ordinance or other regulation made under authority conferred hereby, the proper local authorities of the City of Twin Oaks, in addition to other remedies, may institute any appropriate action or proceedings to prevent such 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. Such regulations shall be enforced by an officer empowered to cause any building, structure, place, or premises to be inspected and examined and to order, in writing, the remedying of any condition found to exist therein or thereat in violation of any provision of the regulations made under authority of Sections 89.010 to 89.140, RSMo.

The owner or general agent of a building or premises where a violation of any provision of said regulations 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 of 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 such violation or who maintains any building or premises in which any such violation shall exist shall be guilty of an ordinance violation punishable as set forth in Section 100.220.

Any such person who having been served with an order to remove any such violation shall fail to comply with such order within ten (10) days after such service or shall continue to violate any provision of the regulations made under authority of Sections 89.010 to 89.140, RSMo., in the respect named in such order shall also be subject to a civil penalty of two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00).

Each of the remedies, fines and imprisonments set forth in this Section shall be cumulative and not exclusive remedies.