[Adopted 3-18-2008 by Ord. No. 08-05]
It shall be the duty of the Housing Officer to enforce existing
regulations within the Borough of Westwood pertaining to multifamily
housing, to recommend further measures to be adopted by the Governing
Body as and where necessary to facilitate such enforcement and to
assist, coordinate and cooperate in the activities of other Borough
agencies that also have enforcement powers and obligations concerning
multifamily, and particularly substandard and unlawful, housing.
The Housing Officer shall be independent of the Building Department
and shall report to the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Westwood
through the Administrator and the Land Use Liaison.
The Housing Officer is hereby granted enforcement powers, including
the power to issue summonses, returnable in Municipal Court, for violations
of any Borough regulation pertaining directly or indirectly to substandard
or unlawful multifamily housing.
[Amended 1-18-2011 by Ord. No. 11-04]
The Housing Officer shall be paid such annual salary as shall
be fixed by the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Westwood. The
Housing Officer shall devote, on the average, and without any daily
fixed schedule, approximately eight hours per week on the duties mentioned
above.
