(a) General Requirements.
(1) No person shall move any building or structure greater than two hundred (200) square feet upon any of the public ways of the Village of Edgar without first obtaining a permit therefor from the UDC Building Inspector and upon the payment of the required fee to the Village Administrator-Clerk-Treasurer. Every such permit issued by the UDC Building Inspector for building moving shall designate the route to be taken, the conditions to be complied with and shall limit the time during which said moving operations shall be continued.
(2) A report shall be made by the Public Works Department with regard to possible damage to trees. The estimated cost of trimming, removal and replacement of public trees, as determined by the Village of Edgar, shall be paid to the UDC Building Inspector or Village Administrator-Clerk-Treasurer prior to issuance of the moving permit.
(3) Issuance of moving permit shall further be conditioned on approval of the moving route by the Village Board.
(b) Moving Damaged Buildings. No building shall be repaired, altered or moved within or into the Village of Edgar that has deteriorated or has been damaged by any cause (including such moving and separation from its foundation and service connections in case of moved buildings) or which is unsafe for human habitation or poses a threat to neighboring properties, and no permit shall be granted to repair, alter or move such building within or into the Village of Edgar. Furthermore, if the equalized assessed value of the building is not within twenty percent (20%) of the surrounding buildings where the building is proposed to be moved to, no permit shall be granted unless the building is improved to be within the twenty percent (20%). Such determination shall be made by the Building Inspector, who may seek a recommendation from the Village Assessor.
(c) Continuous Movement. The movement of buildings shall be a continuous operation during all the hours of the day and at night, until such movement is fully completed. All such operations shall be performed with the least possible obstruction to thoroughfares. No building shall be allowed to remain overnight upon any street crossing or intersection or so near thereto as to prevent easy access to any fire hydrant or any other public facility. Lights shall be kept in conspicuous places at each end of the building during the night.
(d) Street Repair. Every person receiving a permit to move a building shall, within one (1) day after said building reaches its destination, report that fact to the Village Administrator- Clerk-Treasurer, who shall direct Public Works Department personnel to inspect the streets, highways and curbs and gutters over which said building has been moved and ascertain their condition. If the removal of said building has caused any damage to any street or highway, the person to whom the permit was issued shall forthwith place them in as good repair as they were before the permit was granted. On the failure of the said permittee to do so within ten (10) days thereafter to the satisfaction of the Village Board, the Village shall repair the damage done to such streets and hold the person obtaining such permit and the sureties on his/her bond responsible for the payment of same.
(e) Conformance with Code. No permit shall be issued to move a building within or into the Village of Edgar and to establish it upon a location within the Village until the Building Inspector has made an investigation of such building at the location from which it is to be moved and is satisfied from such investigation that said building is in a sound and stable condition and of such construction that it will meet the requirements of this Building Code in all respects. A complete plan of all further repairs, improvements and remodeling with reference to such building shall be submitted to the Building Inspector, and he/she shall make a finding of fact to the effect that all such repairs, improvements and remodeling are in conformity with the requirements of this Building Code and that, when the same are completed, the building as such will so comply with said Building Code. In the event a building is to be moved from the Village of Edgar to some point outside the boundaries thereof, the provisions with respect to the furnishing of plans and specifications for proposed alterations to such building may be disregarded.
(f) Bond or Security Deposit.
(1) Before a permit is issued to move any building over any public way in the Village, the party applying therefor shall provide a bond or security deposit to the Village of Edgar in a sum to be fixed by the Building Inspector and which shall not be less than Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00), said bond to be executed by a corporate surety or two (2) personal sureties to be approved by the Village of Edgar or designated agent conditioned upon, among other things, the indemnification to the Village for any costs or expenses incurred by it in connection with any claims for damages to any persons or property, and the payment of any judgment together with the costs and expenses incurred by the Village in connection therewith arising out of the removal of the building for which the permit is issued.
(2) Unless the Building Inspector, upon investigation, shall find it to be a fact that the excavation exposed by the removal of such building from its foundation shall not be so close to a public thoroughfare as to permit the accidental falling therein of travelers or the location, nature and physical characteristics of the premises and the exposed excavation, such as to make intrusion upon the premises and the falling into such excavation of children under twelve (12) years of age unlikely, the bond required by Subsection (f)(l) shall be further conditioned upon the permittee erecting adequate barriers and within forty-eight (48) hours, filling in such excavation or adopting and employing such other means, devices or methods approved by the UDC Building Inspector or designated Village official or employee and reasonably adopted or calculated to prevent the occurrences set forth herein.
(g) Insurance. The Village shall require, in addition to said bond above indicated, public liability insurance covering injury to one (1) person in the sum of not less than Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000.00) and for one (1) accident, aggregate not less than One Million Dollars ($1,000,000), together with property damage insurance in a sum not less than Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000.00), or such other coverage as deemed necessary. The Village of Edgar shall be an additional named insured.
(h) Village Board Approval.
(1) No such permit shall be issued unless it has been found as a fact by the Village Board by at least a majority vote, after an examination of the application for the permit which shall include exterior elevations of the building and accurate photographs of all sides and views of the same and in case it is proposed to alter the exterior of said building, plans and specifications of such proposed alterations and after a view of the building proposed to be moved and of the site at which it is to be located, that the exterior architectural appeal and functional plans of the building to be moved or moved and altered, will not be so at variance with either the exterior architectural appeal and functional plan of the buildings already constructed or in the course of construction in the immediate neighborhood or in the character of the applicable district established by the zoning ordinances of the Village or any ordinance amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, as to cause a substantial depreciation of the property values of said neighborhood within said applicable district. In case the applicant proposed to alter the exterior of said building after moving the same, he/she shall submit, with his/her application papers, complete plans and specifications for the proposed alterations. Before a permit shall be issued for a building to be moved and altered, the applicant shall give a cash bond to the Village Board, which shall not be less than Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00) to be executed in the manner provided in subsection hereof to the effect that he/she will, within a time to be set by the Village Board, complete the proposed exterior alterations to said building in the manner set forth in his/her plans and specifications. This bond shall be in addition to any other bond or surety which may be required by other applicable ordinances of the Village of Edgar. No occupancy permit shall be issued for said building until the exterior alterations proposed to be made have been completed.
(2) Upon application being made to the Building Inspector, he/she shall request a meeting of the Village Board to consider application for moving permits which he/she has found comply, in all respects, with all other ordinances of the Village. The Village of Edgar may, if it desires, hear the applicant for the moving permit in question and/or the owner of the lot on which it is proposed to locate the building in question, together with any other persons, either residents or property owners, desiring to be heard, give such notice of hearing as they may deem sufficient. Such hearing may be adjourned for a reasonable length of time and within forty-eight (48) hours after the close of the hearing, the Village Board shall, in writing, make or refuse to make the finding required by Subsection (h)(l) hereof and file it in the office of Village Administrator-Clerk-Treasurer who shall send a copy of it to the Building Inspector.