A. Required. No building or other structure, including a mobile home, shall be built, enlarged, altered, moved, or placed without a building permit issued by the City as required by the City's building code and whenever structural changes will amount to more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) in cost.
B. Application for permit: information required. A person desiring a building permit shall submit an application therefor to the City. The applicant shall submit with the application such reasonable information, including any additional computations, information on water, sewer tap or temporary service, or plot plan, as the Building Official may require to enable him to determine whether granting the permit would be in accordance with the requirements of the ordinances of the City.
C. Issuance of permit upon payment of fee. If the application is in accordance with the requirements of the ordinances and laws, the permit may be issued upon the payment by the applicant of a building permit fee, which fee shall be set by resolution of the City Council. A current copy of the fee schedule shall be kept in the Office of the City Clerk.
D. Fees doubled when work started without permit. Where work for which a permit is required by the City's building code is started or proceeded with prior to obtaining the permit, the fees specified in the fee schedule on file in the Office of the City Clerk shall be doubled, but the payment of such double fee shall not relieve any persons from fully complying with the requirements of the building code in the execution of the work nor from any other penalties prescribed herein.
E. All fees included. The fees referred to in this section shall include all building, electrical, mechanical, and plumbing permit and inspection fees.
F. State required fees for the issuance of building permits. Pursuant to State statute 59 O.S. §§ 1000.23 and 1000.25, also known as the Uniform Building Code Commission Act, as of April 1 , 2010, the City of Purcell is required and authorized by the State to, and shall impose a fee of four dollars ($4.00) per building or construction permit issued by the City. Monies shall be remitted to the Uniform Building Code Commission before the 20th of each month. An additional fifty cent ($0.50) fee is required and authorized by the State and shall be imposed and received by the City to support the processing and handling of this fee (for a total of four dollars and fifty cents ($4.50) per permit).
(Code 1991, § 5-106(A)(l); Ord. No. 10-07, 4-5-2010)
State Law reference- Building permit fees, 59 O.S. §§ 1000.23 and 1000.25.