The Building Commissioner is hereby designated and authorized to enforce this chapter.
(A) Any person, persons, firms or corporations which shall make application for an improvement location permit shall furnish the Building Commissioner with a site plan of the real estate upon which said application for an improvement location permit is made. Said site plan shall be drawn to scale showing the following items:
(1) Legal or site description of the real estate involved.
(2) Location and size of all buildings and structures.
(3) Width and length of all entrances and exits to and from said real estate.
(4) All adjacent and adjoining roads or highways.
(B) Site plans so furnished to the Building Commissioner shall be filed by the Building Commissioner and shall become a permanent record.
(C) The Building Commissioner may require the relocation of any proposed building or structure or exit or entrance shown on said site plan and/or the location of new exits or entrances not shown on said site plan before issuing an improvement location permit when such action is necessary to carry out the purpose and intent of this chapter.
(D) The Building Commissioner shall issue an improvement location permit for a special exception only following receipt of notice from the Board that the application therefore has been approved by the Board.
(E) The authority provided in an improvement location permit shall expire six months after its issuance, unless 30% of the total work described in the development plan has been completed. If work required by a development plan has substantially stopped for a period of six months, the authority provided in the improvement location permit shall have expired.
(F) The holder of an improvement location permit for a special exception development plan may apply to the Board at any time for an alteration, change, amendment or extension of the development plan upon which such permit is based.
(1) Upon receipt of such application, the Board shall proceed as in the case of original application for special exceptions .
(2) In the event the Board shall approve and order such development plan changed, altered, amended or extended, it shall so notify the Building Commissioner who shall issue an amended improvement location permit accordingly.
(G) No land shall be occupied or used and no building hereafter erected, reconstructed or structurally altered shall be occupied or used, in whole or in part, for any purpose whatsoever, until a certificate of occupancy shall have been issued by the Building Commissioner stating that the building and use comply with all of the provisions of this chapter applicable to the building or premises or the use in the district in which it is to be located.
(H) No change in use shall be made in any building or part thereof, nor or hereafter erected, reconstructed or structurally altered, without a certificate of occupancy having been issued by the Building Commissioner, and no such permit shall be issued to make such change unless it is in conformity with the provisions of this chapter.
(I) A certificate of occupancy shall be applied for coincidentally with the application for an improvement location permit and shall be issued within ten days after the lawful erection, reconstruction or structural alteration of such building shall have been completed.
(J) A record of all certificates of occupancy shall be kept on file in the office of the Building Commissioner and copies shall be furnished upon request to any person having a proprietary or tenancy interest in the building or land affected.
(K) No improvement location permit shall be issued for excavation for, or the erection, reconstruction or structural alteration of any building before application has been made for a certificate of occupancy.
(L) Failure to comply with the provisions of this chapter subsequent to the issuance of a certificate of occupancy shall result in a revocation of such certificate.
(Ord. 480, passed 11-16-1970; Ord. 95-611, passed 10-4-1995) Penalty, see § 154.99