(a) General Applicability.
(1) The provisions of this code shall apply to all land, buildings, structures, and uses of land, buildings, and structures, or portions thereof, located within the municipal boundaries of the Village of Centerburg. The provisions of this code are the minimum requirements adopted to meet the purposes of this code as established in Section 1101.01.
(2) The regulations established for each district in this code shall apply uniformly to each class or type of use, land, building, or structure, unless modified, varied or waived as provided herein.
(3) No building, structure, or land shall be used or occupied and no building or structure or part thereof shall be structurally altered except in conformity with all of the regulations herein specified for the district in which it is located.
(b) Public Utilities.
(1) The erection, construction, alteration, or maintenance by public utilities or municipal departments, boards, or commissions, of overhead, surface or underground gas, electrical steam, or water, distribution or transmission systems, collection, communications (including wireless telecommunication facilities as regulated in this code), supply or disposal systems, including mains, sanitary sewers, water lines, drains, sewers, pipes, conduits, tunnels, wires, cables, fire alarm boxes, police call boxes, traffic signals, hydrants, poles, electrical substation, gas regulator stations and other similar equipment and accessories in connection therewith, reasonably necessary for the furnishing of adequate service by such public utility or municipal department, board, or commission or for the public health, safety, or general welfare, shall comply with the regulations of this code to the extent permitted by Ohio law. To the extent mandated by Ohio law, exemptions for public utilities and facilities shall be construed as narrowly as possible to give as much effect to these regulations as allowed.
(2) Buildings required in conjunction with an essential service identified in subsection (1) above shall be subject to the regulations of this code and shall be reviewed as a principal use in accordance with Section 1105.05.
(Ord. 2023-16. Passed 6-5-23.)