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Cheyenne committee recommends ordinance allowing administrative inspection warrants for fire and building officials
Summary
A City of Cheyenne committee voted to recommend approval of an ordinance that would add administrative inspection-warrant authority to the municipal code, enabling the fire chief and chief building official to seek warrants to inspect properties when consent cannot be obtained.
A City of Cheyenne committee voted to recommend approval of an ordinance (second reading) that would add Chapter 1.28 to the municipal code, authorizing administrative inspection warrants for the city’s fire chief and chief building official.
Deputy City Attorney David Hopkinson told the committee the ordinance "allows the chief of the fire department and the chief building official to seek administrative inspection warrants," describing the warrants as an administrative—rather than criminal—mechanism with a lower evidentiary standard to verify property conditions and enforce building- and safety-related municipal codes.
Hopkinson said the…
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