(a) No person shall move any building within the limits of the City without paying an annual registration fee of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) and posting a bond with good and sufficient sureties to be approved by the City Manager. The bond shall provide that the party will pay any and all damages which may happen to any tree, pavement, street, or sidewalk or any public building or structure, and all damages resulting to any person whomsoever which may be caused by the carelessness or negligence of the person so licensed, or by his agent, employees, or workmen while engaged in the removing of any building in the streets, alleys or public ways of the City. The bond shall provide also that the mover will save and indemnify and keep harmless the City against all liabilities, judgments, costs and expenses which may accrue against the City in consequence of the granting of the permit and will in all things strictly comply with the conditions of the permit.
(b) Permit for Each Job. Upon payment of the registration fee and the execution of the bond to the acceptance of the City Manager, the mover shall in each and every instance, before removing any building, obtain a permit from the City Manager or his authorized agent, stating specifically all the conditions, prescribing the route to be taken, the building proposed to be removed, and the site to which the building is to be removed, and limiting the time for the removal of any such building.
(c) Signals and Lights. Any person having such permit shall, while engaged in the removal of any buildings in the public streets, alleys and public ways of the City and while occupying or using the streets, alleys and public ways for that purpose, cause a red light to be placed in a conspicuous place in the front and rear of the building and obstruction, and the capstan used in moving the same, from dark until sunrise on each night during the time the building and obstruction remains in the streets, alleys and highways of the City.
(d) Delay in Moving; Penalty. The owner of any building, or the contractor for its removal, either or both, who shall suffer the same to be or remain in any of the streets, alleys, highways or upon any of the public grounds of the City for any time longer than may be specified in the permit, unavoidable delays excepted, shall be fined, in accordance with Section 1323.99, and shall forfeit his permit, and there shall be a like penalty for each 24 hours that the same shall be continued, and such buildings shall be deemed a nuisance.
(Ord. 2016-12. Passed 7-26-16.)