§ 9-153. Requirements for issuance—Into or within city.  


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  • The sustainable development department shall issue a permit for the moving of a structure into the city, or from location to location in the city, subject to the following conditions and requirements:

    (1)

    Fee. Payment of the permit fee as required.

    (2)

    Evidence of compliance. Evidence that the house-moving contractor has complied with the provisions of sections 9-153, 9-157 and 9-158.

    (3)

    Information to be filed; route, time; approval. Filing with the department of the written designation of the route along which the building will be moved and the time when the building is to be moved, approved in writing by the chief of police or captain in charge of traffic, police department.

    (4)

    Proposed plans to be filed. Filing of detailed plans and specifications covering the proposed repairing and reconditioning of the moved building or structure.

    (5)

    Bond by mover. Posting with the department a cash or surety bond, payable to the city, in an amount not less than fifteen hundred dollars ($1500.00), which bond shall be approved by the building inspector, conditioned that the building or structure to be moved shall be moved to such location and repaired and reconditioned within sixty (60) days after granting of the permit, in accordance with plans and specifications submitted to and approved by the building inspector, and in accordance with this Code.

    (6)

    Bond by owner. Posting by the owner of the property from which the building is to be moved with the department a cash or surety bond, payable to the city, in an amount not less than five hundred dollars ($500.00), which bond shall be approved by the building inspector, conditioned that the property from which the building or structure is moved shall be placed in a sanitary, clean and sightly condition within twenty (20) days after the building has been moved and all debris removed from the premises within such twenty-day period.

    (7)

    Release of bond. Upon the house-moving contractor's faithful completion of such moving operations and compliance with the provisions of this Code, the building inspector has authority to release the bond or return the cash bond prescribed under paragraph (5) of this section. Upon the owner's placing the premises from which the building was removed in a sanitary, clean and sightly condition within twenty (20) days after the building has been moved and all debris removed from the premises, the building inspector shall have the authority to release the bond or return the cash bond.

(Code 1953, § 48-20; Ord. No. C-70-69, § 1, 9-1-70; Ord. No. C-17-28 , § 40, 9-13-17)