(a) No building or structure, except public utility lines and supports shall be erected, reconstructed, enlarged or moved until an Improvement Location Permit shall have been applied for in writing and issued by the Zoning Inspector.
(b) No Improvement Location Permit shall be issued by the Zoning Inspector for the proposed erection, reconstruction, enlargement or moving of a building or structure unless the proposed erection, reconstruction, enlargement or moving of a building or structure conforms with the provisions of the Zoning Ordinance.
(c) Application for Improvement Location Permits shall be made upon forms prescribed by the Zoning Inspector and shall be accompanied by plans and specifications of sufficient detail to enable the Zoning Inspector to determine whether the proposed improvements will comply with the provisions of the Zoning Ordinance.
(d) The applicant shall post said permit in a prominent place on the premises prior to and during the period of erection, reconstruction, enlargement or moving.
(e) Every permit may be revoked if active work is not commenced within sixty days after the date of its issue, and continued with due diligence to completion; and the Zoning Inspector shall judge if due diligence is being shown and shall notify the owner or agent in case due diligence is not being shown.
(f) If the Zoning Inspector determines that the work under any permit is not being continued with due diligence to completion or is not proceeding according to the detailed statement, plans and specifications upon which such permit was issued, or is proceeding in violation of law, it shall be his duty to give written notice thereof to the owner or his agent, requiring that same must be immediately rectified.
(g) If the owner or his agent neglects to comply with the provisions of such notice within such time as may be specified by the Zoning Inspector, or fails to commence active work within sixty days after the date of its issue, it shall be the further duty of the Zoning Inspector to revoke said permit and written notice thereof shall be immediately served upon the owner, agent, superintendent or contractor in charge of the work, or posted on the property.
(h) After such revocation of permit any person performing any work in or about the said structure, building or premises shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than five dollars ($5.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00).
(i) Before any improvement location permit is issued affecting any land within three- hundred feet of the centerline of the proposed new highway or a highway for which changes are proposed as described in the certification to local officials by the Director of Transportation or any land within a radius of five hundred feet from the point of intersection of said centerline with any public road or highway, the Zoning Inspector shall give notice, by registered mail to the Director of Transportation that he shall not issue an improvement location permit for one-hundred twenty days from the date of notice is received by the Director of Transportation. If the Director of Transportation notifies the Zoning Inspector that he shall proceed to acquire the land needed, then the Zoning Inspector shall refuse to issue the improvement location permit. If the Director of Transportation notifies the Zoning Inspector that acquisition at this time is not in the public interest or upon the expiration of the one-hundred twenty day period of any extension thereof agreed upon the Director of Transportation and the property owner, the Zoning Inspector shall, if the application is in conformance with all provisions of this ordinance, issue the improvement location permit.
(Ord. 411. Passed 12-4-75.)