(a) General requirements.
(1) No person shall move any building or structure upon any of the public ways of the village without first obtaining a permit therefor from the Building Inspector, and upon the payment of the required fee. Every such permit issued by the Building Inspector for the moving of a building shall designate the route to be taken, the conditions to be complied with, and shall limit the time during which said moving operations shall be continued.
(2) A report shall be made by village employees with regard to possible damage to trees. The estimated cost of trimming, removal, and replacement of public trees, as determined by the village, shall be paid to the Village Administrator, Clerk, or highest elected official, as appropriate, prior to issuance of the moving permit.
(3) Issuance of moving permit shall further be conditioned on approval of the moving route by the Village Board.
(b) Continuous movement. The movement of buildings shall be a continuous operation during all the hours of the day and at night, until such movement is fully completed. All such operations shall be performed with the least possible obstruction to thoroughfares. No building shall be allowed to remain overnight upon any street crossing or intersection or so near thereto as to prevent easy access to any fire hydrant or any other public facility. Lights shall be kept in conspicuous places at each end of the building during the night.
(c) Street repair. Every person receiving a permit to move a building shall, within one day after said building reaches its destination, report that fact to the Building Inspector, inspect the streets, highways and curbs and gutters over which said building has been moved and ascertain their condition. If the removal of said building has caused any damage to any street or highway, the person to whom the permit was issued shall forthwith place them in as good repair as they were before the permit was granted. On the failure of the said permittee to do so within ten days thereafter to the satisfaction of the Village Board, the village shall repair the damage done to such streets and hold the person obtaining such permit and the sureties on his or her bond responsible for the payment of same.
(d) Conformance with code. No permit shall be issued to move a building within or into the village, and to establish it upon a location within the said village until the Building Inspector has made an investigation of such building at the location from which it is to be moved and is satisfied from such investigation that said building is in a sound and stable condition, and of such construction that it will meet the requirements of this building code in all respects. A complete plan of all further repairs, improvements, and remodeling with reference to such building shall be submitted to the Building Inspector, and he or she shall make a finding of fact to the effect that all such repairs, improvements, and remodeling are in conformity with the requirements of this building code and that, when the same are completed, the building as such will so comply with said building code. In the event a building is to be moved from the village to some point outside the boundaries thereof, the provisions with respect to the furnishing of plans and specifications for proposed alterations to such building may be disregarded.
(1) Before a permit is issued to move any building over any public way in the village, the party applying therefor shall give a bond to the village in a sum to be fixed by the Building Inspector and which shall not be less than $1,000, said bond to be executed by a corporate surety or two personal sureties to be approved by the Village Board, or designated agent, conditioned upon, among other things, the indemnification to the village for any costs or expenses incurred by it in connection with any claims for damages to any persons or property, and the payment of any judgment together with the costs and expenses incurred by the village in connection therewith arising out of the removal of the building for which the permit is issued.
(2) Unless the Building Inspector, upon investigation, shall find it to be a fact that the excavation exposed by the removal of such building from its foundation shall not be so close to a public thoroughfare as to permit the accidental falling therein of travelers or the location, nature and physical characteristics of the premises, and the exposed excavation, such as to make intrusion upon the premises and the falling into such excavation of children under 12 years of age unlikely, the bond required by subsection (e)(1) above shall be further conditioned upon the permittee erecting adequate barriers, and within 48 hours, filling in such excavation or adopting and employing such other means, devices, or methods approved by the Building Inspector and reasonably adopted or calculated to prevent the occurrences set forth herein.
(f) Insurance. The Building Inspector shall require, in addition to said the said bond above indicated, public liability insurance covering injury to one person in the sum of not less than $100,000 and for one accident in a sum not less than $200,000, together with property damage insurance in a sum not less than $50,000, or such other coverage as deemed necessary.
(Prior Code, § 15-1-13)