A. Permits:
1. Buildings: No building or structure, or any part thereof, shall hereafter be built, enlarged, altered, moved or demolished within the city, except as hereinafter provided, unless a permit therefor shall first be obtained by the owner or his agent, from the building inspector or his authorized agent. The term "building" as used in this chapter shall include any building or structure and any enlargement, alteration, movement or demolishing thereof and also any new heating plant or any material alteration in any existing heating plant, toilet room or elevator. Where sanitary sewers are not in or immediately available, no building permit shall be issued by the building inspector until the plumbing permit for individual sewage disposal system has been issued in accordance with regulations of the city. The building inspector may authorize minor repairs or alterations valued less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) which do not change the occupancy area, structural strength, fire protection, exits, lights or ventilation of the building without issuing a building permit.
2. Excavation Plans Submitted In Advance: Before commencing with the excavation or driving piles for any foundation of any building or structure a building permit shall be first obtained from the building inspector or his authorized agent. An application for a building permit shall be filed with the building inspector, together with the plans and specifications of the building, showing the location of the building or structure, also the size and material of the foundations and, if required, the loads to be placed thereon, size and materials of the piles and the load to be placed on each, and if said application, drawings and specifications are in accordance with this and other ordinance provisions, the building inspector or his authorized agent shall issue a permit after the applicant has paid into the city treasury the amount of permit fees established for each permit.
3. Guardrails Maintained: Any person making excavations or causing the same to be made shall properly guard them, and shall so protect them that the adjoining soil shall not cave in, and no one shall excavate so as to injure any adjoining soil, ground or building. Whenever such excavations shall be made within ten feet (10') of any sidewalk, street or alley, proper guardrails shall be maintained and proper warning lights and signs installed. What are proper guardrails, lights and signs shall be determined by the building inspector or his authorized agent. The building inspector or his authorized agent may require guardrails around such other excavations as he shall believe the protection of the public requires.
B. Erection Or Construction Without Permit Prohibited: No person shall erect or construct any building or structure whatever, or add to, enlarge, move, improve, alter, convert, extend or demolish any building or structure or cause the same to be done, or commence any work covered by this code on any structure without first obtaining a building permit therefor from the building inspector; provided, however, that the building inspector may authorize minor repairs not involving structural alterations without requiring a building permit to be issued. Such permit shall be issued in the name of the owner or his or her designated agent.
C. Filing May Be Waived: If in the opinion of the building inspector, the character of the work is sufficiently described in the application, he may waive the filing of plans, provided the cost of such work does not exceed three thousand dollars ($3,000.00).
D. Application: Applications for building permits shall be filed with the building inspector in writing on a blank form to be furnished for that purpose. Such application shall describe the land upon which the proposed building or work is to be done, either by lot, block or tract, or similar general description which will readily identify and definitely locate the proposed building or work, and shall show the use or occupancy of all parts of the building and such other pertinent information as may be required by the building inspector.
E. Right To Inspect: The building inspector or any inspector of the department of building inspection shall, as a condition of the granting of a building permit, have the right to enter the premises for which said permit was issued, at any reasonable time during the course of the work and until final inspection and approval thereof has been given, for the purposes of inspecting said premises and its compliance as to construction, repair, use and location of buildings.
F. Permit For Altered Mobile Equipment: Notwithstanding any other provision in this chapter, no building permit may be issued for the construction, alteration, or repair of a building or structure used or intended to be used for other than human habitation consisting of, in part or in full, a trailer, semitrailer or motor truck as those terms are defined in chapter 340, Wisconsin statutes, whether or not such trailer, semitrailer or motor truck has been, is being, or will be modified in any manner to render it immobile before attachment to real estate. (1975 Code Ch. 16 § IV)
G. Clean Up Of Litter And Building Debris: No litter, building debris, excavations or ground piles shall be left on property on which a building is being constructed, razed or has been moved from. When work is being done in an unsatisfactory manner or when work is not progressing, thus causing a hazard and nuisance to public safety, the building inspector shall, after written notice specifying the definite time limit to persons concerned to clean up the property and level the ground to adjoining level, cause the work to be undertaken by the city or firm hired by the city and the cost thereof charged back to the property or property owner. (Ord. 2007-06, 7-2-2007)