§ 44A. Building department.

The building department shall be under the supervision and direction of the building official who shall be appointed and hold office in the manner prescribed by the General Statutes and shall qualify and be certified as a building official by the State of Connecticut. The building official or the building official's designees shall be the clerk agents of the zoning commission and the zoning board of appeals. The building official shall be the chief zoning enforcement officer of the zoning commission. The building official shall be responsible to the mayor. Assistant building officials shall be appointed in the same manner as the building official and shall serve as inspectors of the various building trades in which their qualifications are certified as provided in the Connecticut General Statutes. Each shall be licensed at journeyman level or higher, and where licensing in a trade is not required, each shall have at least five (5) years' experience at journeyman level or higher in that trade. They shall perform the duties assigned to each by the building official.

(Amend. eff. 11-4-81; Amend. eff. 11-9-83; Amend. eff. 12-8-11)