A. Enforcing Agency: The city council is the enforcement agency that is to enforce and supervise the provisions of this title in accordance with Montana law.
B. Officials Or Employees Acting For Council: The city council may appoint a building inspector or other employee to act as its agent, or the city superintendent may act in such capacity, to administer and enforce this title.
C. Duties Of Building Inspector:
1. Primarily, the building inspector or city superintendent administers and enforces this title, and receives applications for building permits, for conditional use permits and for variances. Applications for permits, together with fees, plans, and specifications, are filed with the building inspector or city superintendent for review to determine whether they conform with this title.
2. The building inspector or city superintendent also inspects building sites for conformance with the zoning regulations, receives and investigates complaints involving possible zoning violations, and answers questions concerning this title.
3. The building inspector or city superintendent may order building construction to be stopped whenever such building construction is being conducted in violation of any provision of this title. (Ord. 16.00; amd. Ord. 2.32)
A. Building Permits:
1. No future change in land use shall be made and no building or other structure shall be constructed, altered, added to, torn down, razed or moved until a building permit has been issued covering the proposed work. (Ord. 16.00)
2. Applications for building permits are available from the city clerk-treasurer's office. If the land use, building, or other structure is clearly in conformance with this title, the building permit may be approved by the city council and issued by the building inspector or city superintendent; if not in conformance, the applicant may apply for a variance. (Ord. 16.00; amd. Ord. 2.32)
3. Any building permit issued in violation of the provisions of this title is null and void.
B. Applications For Permits And Variances: Applications for building permits, variances, and conditional use permits are available from the city clerk-treasurer's office.
C. Fees:
1. Before a building permit can be issued, a fee therefor shall be paid by the applicant.
2. An application for a conditional use permit or for a variance shall be accompanied by the required fee.
3. The amount of such fees shall be set by resolution of the city council. (Ord. 16.00)
A. Formation Of Board: The city council may act as a board of adjustment or may provide for the appointment of a board of adjustment, as established in the Montana Code Annotated, as amended.
B. Powers: The board of adjustment shall hear and decide appeals from any determination made by the city council or by the building inspector or city superintendent, applications for conditional uses and for variances, as established in the Montana Code Annotated, as amended. (Ord. 16.00; amd. Ord. 2.32)
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