8.20.050 Health and safety officer.
The office of the Lindon City health and safety officer is created for the purpose of administering the provisions of this chapter and the powers delegated to this municipality by state and county laws and statutes, subject to such control and review as the city council may from time to time direct. Until such time as the city council may otherwise appoint a health and safety officer by resolution, the city administrator, public works director, chief building official, planning director, police officer, fire marshal or other code enforcement staff hired by the city may perform the functions of health and safety officer.
1. Duties. The health and safety officer is authorized and directed to inspect and examine property situated within the municipality for the purpose of determining whether or not a nuisance, as defined herein, exists upon said property.
2. If the health and safety officer concludes that such conditions exist in whole, or in part, they shall:
a. Ascertain the names of the owner(s) and responsible party(ies) and other occupants and descriptions of the property where such objects and conditions exist;
b. Serve notice, as provided herein, to the owner and responsible party, that the city is seeking to have a nuisance abated pursuant to the requirements of this chapter;
c. Inform the owner and/or responsible party of the right to appeal pursuant to Section 8.20.160.
3. The health and safety officer shall implement enforcement of this chapter pursuant to the authority established in Section 8.20.090. (Ord. 2020-4 §1, amended, 2020)