§ 10-23. Powers and duties.

(a)

The building trades board shall establish administrative procedures, consistent with state law, necessary to carry out its work.

(b)

The building trades board shall hear all appeals from orders, decisions and determinations of the city manager or the city manager's designee, the building, fire, or other code officials, as recognized in Stillwater City Code chapters 10 and 20 and shall interpret the provisions of the applicable code whenever a dispute arises as to the meaning or intent of any provision. However, the board shall have no authority to amend, modify, vary or wave the requirements of any provision.

(c)

The building trades board shall monitor the license registration practices and the building codes adopted by the city to ensure the maintenance of updated, practical codes and shall make recommendations to the city council pertaining thereto.

(d)

The building trades board shall have the power to suspend or revoke, following an opportunity for hearing, a license registration certificate of any plumbing, mechanical or electrical contractor for any repeated or willful violation of the respective code, including failure to properly correct defective workmanship, or for any willful violation of any of the provisions of the license registration. The person holding such registration certificate about whom a complaint has been filed shall be given not less than ten days' notice of the date, time and place of the hearing, and shall have the right to be represented by an attorney at the hearing. The building trades board shall have the authority to swear witnesses and conduct the hearing as it may deem proper.

(e)

The building trades board shall issue an annual report to the city council pertaining to its work.

(Code 1982, § 7-102; Ord. No. 2457, § 1, 8-2-1993; Ord. No. 2893, § 1, 6-27-2005; Ord. No. 2913, § 1, 11-14-2005; Ord. No. 3414, § 1, 9-10-2018 )