No person shall move or raise any building from its foundation within the City or cause to move any house or other structure into the City without the approval of Planning Commission and City Council. Before any permit is issued, as aforesaid, the applicant must furnish a bond satisfactory to the Building Commissioner in an amount of not less than thirty-five hundred dollars ($3,500) or such amount as Council may determine. Such bond shall provide, but shall not be limited to the following conditions:
(a) For the payment of any damage which may happen to any tree, pavement, street or sidewalk or to any pole or telephone or telegraph light or light wire belonging to the City or for which repairs the City may be held responsible, whether such damage shall be inflicted by such person or his agents, employees or workmen.
(b) That within forty-five days after the permit is issued, the applicant shall have moved the house or other structure, backfilled and graded the sublot, together with properly securing all utility connections, that if such house or structure is moved to a sublot or area within the City, that such house or structure shall be placed on a new foundation, utilities properly installed and the sublot or area rough-graded as approved by the Building Commissioner.
(c) That within ninety days of the moving of the house or structure on such sublot or area, the sublot shall be seeded and the house or structure painted and made habitable in conformity with the ordinances of the City.
Evidence of insurance coverage for property damage and personal injury must be submitted in advance of the issuance of the permit, this in the amount of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) for injury or death to one person, three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) for injury or death to more than one person, and three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) property damage. Such policy shall provide that the City be named as insured and, further, that the applicant and his insurer shall hold the City harmless against any liabilities, judgments, damages, costs and expenses which may in any way accrue or arise against the City by virtue of granting the permit or the performance of any work pursuant thereto.
(Ord. 2021-104. Passed 6-15-21.)