(A) Requirement. With each application for a building permit, and when required by the city for enforcement of any provisions of the City Code or other law, two sets of plans and specifications shall be submitted. The city may require plans and specifications to be prepared or approved by an engineer or architect pursuant to state law.
(B) Information on plans and specifications. Plans and specifications shall be drawn to scale upon suitable paper and shall be of sufficient clarity to indicate the nature and extent of the work proposed and show in detail that it will conform to the provisions of the City Code and all relevant laws, rules and regulations. The first sheet of each set of plans shall give the street address of the work and the name and address of the owner and person who prepared them. Plans shall include a plot plan showing the location of the proposed building and every existing building on the property. In lieu of detailed specifications, the city may approve references on the plans to a specific section or part of the City Code or other laws. Computations, stress diagrams and other data sufficient to show the correctness of the plans shall be submitted when required by the administrative authority.
(C) Retention of plans. One set of approved plans, specifications and computations shall be retained by the city. Plans submitted for checking, for which no permit is issued, and on which no action is taken by the applicant for 90 days, shall be returned to the last known address of the applicant; to renew action on such plans, a payment of a new plan review fee shall be required.
(D) Validity. The issuance or granting of a permit or approval of plans and specifications shall not be construed to be a permit for, or an approval of, any violation of the City Code or other law. No permit presuming to give authority to violate or cancel the provisions of the City Code or other law shall be valid, except insofar as the work or use which it authorizes is lawful.
(E) Corrections. The issuance of a permit based upon plans and specifications shall not prevent the city from thereafter requiring the correction of errors in said plans and specifications or from preventing building or construction operations being carried on thereunder when in violation of the City Code or other law.
(1975 Code, § 4.04)