14-1-6: APPLICABILITY:
This chapter shall apply to all proposed and/or operating gravel pits, gravel, rock, crushed stone, soil or sand extraction and processing operations. A permit will be required for mineral extraction and processing operations where the area is five (5) acres or more, or from which more than two hundred (200) cubic yards of material has or will be removed, but not for construction projects where more than two hundred (200) cubic yards will be excavated and where a grading or building permit is issued. This chapter does not apply to borrow pits established by the town, county or state in connection with a public roadway or flood control project. (Ord. 08-310, 6-24-2008)