§ 1-4.01. Right to appeal.

Except where appeals procedures are otherwise specifically set forth or denied by any rule, regulation, or policy of the City, any person excepting to the denial, suspension, or revocation of a permit applied for or held by him pursuant to any of the provisions of this Code, or to any administrative decision made by any official of the City, if the denial, suspension, or revocation of such permit or the determination of such administrative decision involves the exercise of administrative discretion or personal judgment exercised pursuant to any of the provisions of this Code, may appeal in writing to the Council by filing with the City Clerk a written notice of such appeal, setting forth the specific grounds thereof.

No appeal may be taken to any such administrative decision made by an official of the City pursuant to the provisions of this chapter unless such decision to appeal has been first taken up with the department head concerned.

No right to appeal to the Council from any administrative decision made by an official of the City pursuant to any of the provisions of any rule, regulation, or policy of the City shall exist when such decision is ministerial and thus does not involve the exercise of administrative discretion or personal judgment exercised pursuant to any of such provisions, whether the administrative decision involves the denial, suspension, or revocation of a permit or any other administrative decision.

No rule, regulation, or policy shall deny the right to an appeal if the subject of the appeal involves a vested right.

(§ 1, Ord. 469, eff. April 15, 1981)