(A) License Required. It shall be unlawful for any person except a licensed house mover to move, or attempt to move any house, or other building over, upon, or along, any street, alley or public place in the city. Such licensee's work shall meet with the approval of the Code Official.
(B) License Fee and Bond. Any person may become a licensed house mover in the city and be licensed to move houses or other buildings or parts thereof, upon compliance with the provisions of this chapter, upon paying to the Department a fee of $100, and upon executing a bond to the city with sureties to be approved by the city in the penal sum of $10,000. The bond shall be conditioned for the due observance of all the provisions of this chapter, and of all other ordinances of the city, and also conditioned that the principal obligors in such bond shall save and keep harmless and indemnify the city against all damages, losses, injury, and liability which may in any event accrue against the city because of the act or neglect of the principal obligors in such bond, his or their agents, servants, or employees, or any one or more of them in or about doing any of the things for which the license has been issued.
(C) Application for License. Any person desiring to obtain a license as a house mover shall make application in writing to the Department. The applicant shall, at the same time, present his bond in an amount and condition as prescribed in this section.
(D) Duration of License. No license shall be issued to any house mover except for the balance of the municipal year in which the application is made.
(E) Compliance. All licensed house movers shall observe and obey all the provisions of this chapter and other ordinances of the city now in force regulating the moving, altering, or repairing of houses or other buildings in the city.
(F) Permit Required for Use of Streets. No building shall be moved along or upon any street or alley of the city unless an application is made to the Code Official, stating when and where the building is to be moved. The application shall be accompanied by a fee as prescribed by § 151.99 of this chapter. If the applicant has complied with the requirements of all provisions of this chapter and other ordinances, a permit shall be issued by the Code Official for such removal, but not otherwise.
(G) Revocation of License. Any license granted as required by § 151.08 of this chapter shall be subject to revocation by the city on the written recommendations of the Code Official.
(Ord. 7547, passed 10-1-91; Am. Ord. 8932, passed 4-1-14)