(a) An application for the issuance of a permit for the construction of any building shall operate as an undertaking that the applicant will construct and fully complete such building in accordance with all applicable ordinances, rules and regulations of the City subject to the final inspection and approval of the Building Inspector, and will, within ten days after such completion, or at such earlier time as may be fixed by the Service Director, repair, restore and clean, to the reasonable satisfaction of the Service Director, all sidewalks, tree lawns, curbs and streets that may be damaged or destroyed, or upon which refuse, debris or dirt may have been deposited, in the course of such construction. The term “building” as used in this section means a building other than a private residential garage. A five hundred dollar ($500.00) cash performance bond is required in addition to any other bond required in this section.
(Ord. 91-58. Passed 6-30-92.)
(b) The applicant for the issuance of a permit for the construction of any building shall furnish and file with the Building Inspector, a bond in the sum of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000), to be in such form as is approved by the Director of Law, guaranteeing full and faithful compliance with all the provisions of the City Building Code, indemnifying and holding the City free and harmless.
(Ord. 85-36. Passed 5-21-85.)
(c) Upon completion of such building and final approval of the Building Inspector and the performance of such repair, restoration and cleaning as may be required under subsection (a) hereof, the deposit securing such completion and such repair, restoration and cleaning shall be returned to the applicant, or such portion thereof as shall remain in the event expenditures have been made therefrom under the provisions of subsection (b) hereof.
(d) So long as any applicant shall not be in default in any such undertaking, the total amount of deposits to the credit of such applicant need riot exceed five hundred dollars ($500.00), but in the event of any default on the part of such applicant no deposits shall be waived.
(e) In lieu of the deposits required by subsection (b) hereof, an applicant may deliver to the Building Inspector a corporate surety bond, satisfactory to the Building Inspector, in a principal sum adequate to secure the performance of such undertaking by the applicant as required by subsection (a) hereof, and conditioned upon the performance hereof within the time and in the manner herein provided. In the event of default by such applicant in the terms of such undertaking such surety shall forthwith pay to the Building Inspector the sum of one hundred dollars ($100.00) for each such building in connection with which such default exists.
(Ord. 53-34. Passed 6-10-53.)
(f) In the event a deposit is not returned, and no claim is made for the return of such deposit within one year after the deposit is made with the Building Inspector, the Finance Director shall notify the applicant that unless within thirty days of the date of the. notice such applicant requests a hearing, the deposit shall be forfeited. If no request for a hearing is made by the applicant within thirty days of the date of the notice, the deposit shall be forfeited and shall be transferred to the General Fund of the City. If an applicant makes a timely request for a hearing, the Finance Director shall hear the matter and shall determine whether the applicant is entitled to a refund of the deposit in accordance with the terms of this section.
(Ord. 91-58. Passed 6-30-92.)