[Amended 6-3-2008]
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.
[1]
Editor's Note: See Ch. 124 of the Connecticut
General Statutes.
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.
