Responsibilities of owners of all properties used for residential purposes, as well as their agents and prospective occupants, shall be as follows:
A. No owner or his/her agent shall occupy, sell, rent, transfer, grant, lease, let, mortgage with right of occupancy or otherwise dispose of the ownership or occupancy, whether or not for a consideration and whether such disposal of ownership or occupancy is temporary or permanent, of any dwelling, apartment unit, condominium, duplex or triplex unit, hotel, motel, rooming house, rooming unit, boardinghouse or premises on which the building is located and is used for human occupancy, unless a certificate of occupancy, certifying that the building and premises are in compliance with all other ordinances of the Town of Hammonton, shall first be obtained from the Code Enforcement Officer of the town. Such certificate of occupancy shall be granted or denied within 10 days from the date of the application for the same. However, nothing in this Section 211-2(A) shall require an owner to obtain a certificate of continued occupancy when selling, renting or otherwise disposing of ownership or occupancy of any residential dwelling.
[Amended 8-24-2020 by Ord. 010- 2020]
B. The Code Enforcement Officer shall cause to be prepared appropriate application forms for such certificate of occupancy, which forms shall be available at the office of the Code Enforcement Officer.
C. The Code Enforcement Officer shall also cause to be prepared appropriate forms of such certificate of occupancy.
D. Fees.
[Amended 4-18-2011 by Ord. No. 5-2011; 8-24-2020 by Ord. 010-2020]
(1) The fee for each inspection of a condominium or town home shall be $60.
(2) The fee for each inspection of all other residential dwellings shall be $75.
E. Where preoccupancy inspections are performed by other agencies, the findings of such surveys shall be deemed acceptable to the requirements of this code. In such cases, the occupancy certificate shall be issued upon presentation of pertinent documents, free of handling costs.