(A) Every owner, contractor, or any other person desiring to erect, set, place, or construct a swimming pool of a capacity of five hundred (500) gallons or more shall, prior to the erection, setting, placing, or construction start, make application to the city for a compliance certificate.
(B) Such application shall be in sufficient detail to affirmatively demonstrate to appropriate city officials prima facie compliance with this chapter and with all other applicable ordinances, laws, rules, or regulations by the applicant. Upon such showing a compliance certificate shall issue.
(C) Any person who proceeds to erect, set, place, or start construction on any swimming pool without first obtaining a compliance certificate shall, in addition to any other penalty provision provided for in this chapter, be subject to summary abatement of the erection, setting, placing, construction, or use of any such swimming pool in conformity with legal or equitable doctrines and/or other city ordinances.
(D) An applicant for a compliance certificate shall, in the case of an application for an inground pool, pay at the time application is made, a nonrefundable application fee of twenty five dollars ($25.00); in the case of an application for other than an inground pool, pay at the time application is made, a nonrefundable application fee of fifteen dollars ($15.00). (Ord. 1139, 4-8-1987)