Where an application for a permit required by this chapter is filed with the building division, but no permit is issued within 180 days following the date the application is filed by reason of the failure of the applicant to supply plans and specifications together with such engineering calculations, diagrams, or other data and information as required by the building official, the application shall expire and any plans and specifications, engineering calculations, diagrams, or other data and information submitted for review shall thereafter be returned to the applicant or destroyed by the building official. Provided that, where an applicant has failed to supply plans and specifications, engineering calculations, diagrams, and other data and information required by the building official in a timely manner but demonstrates to the satisfaction of the building official that such failure was due to circumstances beyond the applicant's control, then the time for the expiration of the application may be extended by the building official once for a period not exceeding 180 days.
(Ord. 1646 §4 (part))