(A) No building or other structure mobile or fixed, fence or pool, shall be built, enlarged, altered, or moved without a building permit issued by the Town Clerk-Treasurer as follows:
(1) Whenever changes to a building or other structure alter the outside appearance; and
(2) Whenever a building or structure is to be moved from without the town to a location within the town or from one location in the town to another location within the town.
(B) A person desiring a building permit shall submit an application therefor to the Town Clerk-Treasurer. The applicant shall submit with the application such reasonable information as the Clerk-Treasurer may require to enable him, her, or them to determine whether granting the permit would be in accordance with the requirements of the ordinances of the town.
(C) If the application is in accordance with the requirements of the ordinances and laws, the Clerk-Treasurer shall issue the permit upon the payment by the applicant of a building permit fee which may be set by motion or resolution of the town’s Board of Trustees. A current copy of the fee schedule shall be kept in the office of the Town Clerk-Treasurer.
(D) A building permit is not required for the following: re-roofing as long as the dimensions do not change. Siding, guttering, window replacements, concrete work such as foundation, driveways, patios, or paths within the setbacks. Driveways may connect to the existing street without a building permit.
(E) A building permit covers the initial plumbing and electrical installations to be made in connection with the building.
(F) (1) A building permit is required to erect, move, or replace an existing fence or repair 50% or more of an existing fence. Open, solid wood, decorative, visually solid fences are permitted. Materials used may be masonry, wood, chain link, plastic, or metal. All fences must be of one solid color and material. Privacy fence may have metal posts and bracing with wood planks.
(2) Where fencing is either required by this section or fencing is being moved or a property owner is replacing 50% or more of an existing fence, such fence and walls shall be opaque and shall be constructed of durable, easily maintained materials such as, but not limited to masonry, vinyl, wood sections that are either treated, stained or painted or chain link or wire mesh. In no event shall barbed wire, electric wire fencing, concertina wire, used signage, expanded metal, corrugated tin, pallets, or arena panels be permitted for use as primary fencing.
(Prior Code, § 5-106) (Ord. passed 6-20-2005; Ord. 2019-06, passed 11-4-2019) Penalty, see § 150.99