Section
1442.01 Enforcement generally; right of entry.
1442.02 Building permit fees.
1442.03 Building Permit and Inspections Fund.
1442.99 Penalty; equitable remedies.
CROSS REFERENCES
Building Department - see B. & H. Ch. 1440
Building Officer - see B. & H. 1440.01
Inspector in Charge of Buildings - see B. & H. 1440.02
Inspector in Charge of Electrical Installations - see B. & H. 1440.03
Administration, enforcement and penalty for Housing Code - see B. & H. Ch. 1482
The building officials shall enforce all laws relating to the construction, alteration, removal and demolition of buildings and structures. The Building Officer, the Inspector in Charge of Buildings and the Inspector in Charge of Electrical Installation, in the discharge of their respective official duties and upon proper identification, shall have authority to enter any building, structure or premises at any reasonable hour.
(Ord. 80-O-512, passed 7-15-1980)
(a) The fee for a one-, two- or three-family residential dwelling building permit for new construction, an addition or an accessory structure having a gross total cost in excess of seven thousand dollars ($7,000.00), which fee shall include the cost of inspections and the issuance of a zoning certificate and occupancy permit, if required, shall be calculated by determining the total gross cost of such new construction, addition or accessory structure, dividing the same by one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), which quotient shall then be multiplied by three dollars and seventy cents ($3.70), and the product thereof shall be the fee to be charged.
(b) The fee for a one-, two- or three-family residential dwelling building permit for new construction an addition or an accessory structure having a gross total cost of seven thousand dollars ($7,000.00) or less, which fee shall include the cost of inspections and the issuance of a zoning certificate and occupancy permit if required, shall be twenty-five dollars ($25.00).
(c) The fee for a one-, two- or three-family residential dwelling building permit for the remodeling, alteration, removal, equipping or repair of any such residential dwelling, which fee shall include the cost of inspections and the issuance of a zoning certificate and occupancy permit if required, shall be ten dollars ($10.00) if the total cost of such remodeling, alteration, removal, equipping or repair does not exceed five hundred dollars ($500.00). If the total cost of such remodeling, alteration, removal, equipping or repair exceeds five hundred dollars ($500.00), such fee shall be ten dollars ($10.00), plus one-eighth of 1% of the total cost of the same in excess of five hundred dollars ($500.00).
(Ord. 01-O-1908, passed 9-4-2001)
All monies received for permits under this chapter shall be paid forthwith to the Director of Finance who shall place all receipts in the General Fund in an account entitled the Building Permit and Inspection Fund of the General Fund. All expenses arising from the application and operation of this Building and Housing code shall be paid from such Fund. At the end of each fiscal year, all monies remaining in the Building Permit and Inspection Fund shall revert to the General Fund to be appropriated as Council sees fit.
(Ord. 80-O-512, passed 7-15-1980; Ord. 01-O-1908, passed 9-4-2001)
(a) Whoever violates any of the provisions of Titles Two through Six of this Part Fourteen - Building and Housing Code, including the standards adopted in Title Two by reference, or fails to comply therewith or with any of the requirements thereof, or erects, constricts, adds to, alters, moves or demolishes, or has erected, constructed, added to, altered, moved or demolished, a building or structure or portion thereof, in violation of a detailed statement or plan submitted and approved thereunder, or of a permit or certificate issued thereunder, and whoever owns a building or structure, or portion thereof, or premises, where anything in violation of any of such provisions is placed or exists, and every architect, engineer, builder, contractor, agent, person or corporation employed in connection therewith who assisted in the commission of such a violation or noncompliance, shall, unless a different penalty is expressly provided, be guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree and shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) or imprisoned not more than six months, or both, for each offense. A separate offense shall be deemed committed each day during or on which a violation or noncompliance occurs or continues.
(b) The imposition of the penalty prescribed in division (a) hereof shall not preclude the Municipal Attorney from instituting an appropriate action or proceeding to prevent an unlawful erection, construction, reconstruction, addition, alteration, conversion, removal, demolition, maintenance or use, or to restrain, correct or abate a violation, or to prevent the occupancy of a building or structure or portion thereof, or of the premises, or to prevent an illegal act, conduct, business or use in or about any premises.