(A) Chapter 7510—Minnesota Fire Code is applicable to buildings and activities in the city pursuant to state law.
(B) The Building Inspection Services Department shall be the Building Code Department of the city. The administrative authority shall be the state certified Building Official.
(C) The City Council shall designate the Building Official for the jurisdiction of the city and the extraterritorial limits.
(D) (1) Hereafter, no person shall construct, alter, wreck or move any kind of structure or building or part thereof without first securing a building permit therefore; provided no permit shall be necessary for the construction, reconstruction or alteration of a building where the building is less than 200 square feet in size. In the shoreland overlay zoning district, a building permit shall be required for the construction or installation of any building or structure, regardless of size, for the installation of sewage treatment systems, and for those grading and filling activities not exempted by §§ 154.047 through 154.063. Application for a building permit shall be made to the Building Official or his or her designee on the forms provided by the city. The application shall include sufficient use and that, in cases where municipal sewer does not yet serve a site, a compliant sewage treatment system will be provided. Permits shall stipulate that any identified nonconforming sewage treatment system, as defined by § 154.061, shall be reconstructed or replaced in accordance with the provisions contained therein.
(2) Applications for building permits shall be accompanied by the following exhibits unless waived by the City Council.
(2) Applications for building permits shall be accompanied by the following exhibits unless waived by the City Council.
(a) A legal description and a drawing or sketch of an area including the property in question and 100 feet beyond its outer boundaries showing existing utilities, plat boundaries and dimensions, buildings, easements, foliage and topography and waterway if pertinent. Soil tests may be required if pertinent.
(b) Preliminary building and site development plans showing building's location, dimensional parking and loading arrangement, vehicular and pedestrian access and egress, surface drainage plan, landscaping, utility plan, screening, size and location of all signs, building floor plans of all floors, elevations of all sides of buildings, sections and outline material specifications as appropriate.
(E) (1) Persons requesting a building permit shall fill out a building permit form available from the Building Official.
(2) Completed building permit forms and a fee as may be established by resolution by the City Council shall be submitted to the Building Official. If the proposed development conforms in all respects to Ch. 154 of this code and the Building Code as adopted by the City Council, a building permit shall be issued by the Building Official within a period of 15 days unless additional information is required to determine compliance of the plans with applicable laws in which case the time period shall be extended by the amount of time required by the applicant to provide the information.
(3) If the proposed development involves a zoning amendment, variance or conditional use permit, the application shall be submitted to the Planning Commission for review and appropriate action according to the procedures set forth in §§ 154.171 through 154.173 of this code. If the application is approved, a copy of the approval shall be included with the building permit application and the building permit may be issued.
(F) No vacant land shall be occupied or used and no buildings hereafter erected, significantly altered or moved shall be occupied until the city has issued a certificate of occupancy. The certificate shall show that the building or premises or part thereof and the use thereof are in conformity with the provisions of this code. The certificate shall be issued only when the building or premises and the use thereof conform to all the requirements of this code. The certificate shall be issued only when an affidavit signed by the permit holder has been provided to the City Building Official indicating that the property is graded in accordance with the approved drainage plan on record with the city by the subdivision developer or submitted by the permit holder in the case where there is not subdivision grading plan on record with the city.
(`86 Code, § 11.02) (Am. Ord. 734, passed 7-6-99; Am. Ord. 737, passed 9-21-99; Am. Ord. 816, passed 5-20-03; Am. Ord. 896, passed 2-7-06; Am. Ord. 1045, passed 6-7-16; Am. Ord. 1096, passed 9-21-21)
Penalty, see § 10.99