Sections:
5.16.010 Contractor's license required- Application-Fees.
5.16.020 License issuance-Bond required.
5.16.030 Permit required for each structure to be moved-Application- Fee.
5.16.040 Permit-Issuance restrictions.
5.16.050 Liability for damages.
5.16.060 njury to utility poles or trees.
5.16.070 Structures on public ways in excess of seventy-two hours.
All persons conducting the business of removing houses, buildings or other structures or parts thereof from one location to another, whether such locations are within or without the limits of the city, in the event that the streets, alleys or public ways of the city will be used in the process of such moving, shall, before engaging in such business, annually make application to the city manager for a license to conduct such business and upon compliance with this chapter and the payment of a license fee of fifty dollars, such license shall be issued by the city manager. (Prior code § 14-3-1)
Prior to the issuance of a license as provided in this chapter, the applicant shall file with the city manager a bond payable to the city in the amount of five thousand dollars in such form and with such sureties as shall be approved by the mayor and the city attorney, conditioned upon the applicant's compliance with the requirements of this chapter and all other ordinances of the city which are now or may hereafter be adopted and which are pertinent to such business. Such bond shall be further conditioned upon such applicant's filling all basements left as a result of such moving, leaving all premises vacated by such moving in a safe and sanitary condition, repairing and making good, to the satisfaction of the mayor, any and all damages to any pavement, sidewalk, hydrant, street, alley or other property of the city where damage to which may be caused by the moving of such building, and further conditioned upon the applicant's indemnifying and saving harmless the city against any and all liability for damages, costs or expenses arising in any manner in favor of any person by reason of the moving by applicant of any such building. (Prior code § 14-3-2)
A. Any person, the owner of any house, building or structure which is intended to be moved upon the streets, alleys or other public ways of the city, shall first apply for and obtain a permit from the building inspector of the city to be approved by the city engineer. Such permit shall be conditioned by the building inspector and city engineer upon the performance by the owner or his agents with such reasonable requirements as may be deemed necessary for the protection of the property of the city and its inhabitants. Such application for a permit shall show, in connection with the house, building or structure to be moved, its construction at the present time, its present use and location, its new location together with a diagram of the lot showing the existence of other buildings thereon and the substructure upon which it is intended to be placed, its intended use for the future at such new location, the route to be traversed in the moving thereof, the length of time required for such moving, and the name of a properly licensed person contracting to move such structure.
B. A permit fee of twenty-five dollars shall be charged for each building, house or structure to be so moved, for each seventy-two hours or portion thereof that such structure shall remain standing upon any public street or way in the city. (Prior code § 14-3-3)
No permit shall be issued for the moving of any house, building or structure in the event that the moving or placing of such structure at its new location will in any manner violate the city building code or other pertinent city ordinances and such permit shall not be issued if the placing of such structure at its new location will violate the provisions of the contractual building restrictions existing in the subdivision or area to which such structure shall be moved. (Prior code § 14-3-4)
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