§ 138. Building inspector. The town board of any town which shall have
adopted a building code, plumbing code, electrical code, housing code,
or ordinances, rules and regulations for fire prevention, or for the
removal or repair of unsafe buildings or collapsed structures, or for
any of such purposes, pursuant to the provisions of this article, may
appoint a town building inspector, and in a town of the first class such
assistants thereto as the town board may determine necessary, and fix
the compensation thereof. Such inspector shall have charge of the
enforcement of such codes, ordinances, rules and regulations of the town
and of the zoning ordinance of the town, if there be one, and for such
purposes such inspector, and his assistants, if any, shall have the
right to enter and inspect at any time any building, structure or
premises and to perform any other act necessary for the enforcement of
such codes, ordinances, rules or regulations, or any of them. In any
such town, the town board may appoint a deputy building inspector to
assist the building inspector in the duties of his office. Such deputy
building inspector and assistant building inspectors shall perform such
duties not inconsistent with law as shall be assigned to them,
respectively, by the building inspector and in the performance thereof
shall have the same right to enter and inspect any building and perform
other necessary acts as hereinbefore conferred upon the building
inspector.

Any license or permit required, under the provisions of the building
code, plumbing code, electrical code or housing code shall be issued by
the building inspector or deputy building inspector. Notwithstanding the
provisions of subdivision one of section thirty-seven of this chapter,
the town board may direct that fees for licenses and permits issued by
the building inspector or deputy shall be payable to and collected by
such inspector.

All charges and expenses, including salaries, incurred by the building
inspector and his deputy and assistants in connection with his duties
under this section, less fees, collected if any, shall be a charge upon
the taxable property of that part of the town outside of any
incorporated village and shall be assessed, levied and collected
therefrom in the same manner as other town charges levied on property
outside of villages.