Town of Lincoln, RI Chapter 89 Buildings, Moving of

[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Council of the Town of Lincoln as §§ 5-3-1 through 5-3-6 of the 1972 Code (Ch. 4, Art. VI, of the 1990 Code of Ordinances). Amendments noted where applicable.]

GENERAL REFERENCES

Streets and sidewalks — See Ch. 220.

STATE LAW REFERENCES

Moving buildings — See R.I.G.L. § 23-27.3-116.0 et seq.

§ 89-1 Permission required.

No building shall be removed along or across any of the public streets or highways within this Town without permission of the Building Official.

§ 89-2 Application.

Whenever any person shall design to remove any building along or across any of the public streets or highways in this Town, he shall present his petition in writing to the Building Official for permission to make such removal, which petition shall mention the time for such removal, describe the building, its dimensions, location, the place to which it is designed to be removed, and the streets along or across which the same is to be removed. Every such petition shall be filed with the Town Clerk, and shall be advertised as hereinafter provided, and the costs of such advertising shall accompany the filing of the petition. The Clerk shall cause notice of the pendency of the petition, and the time when the same shall be considered by the Building Official, to be publicly advertised for at least one week in some newspaper published in this county, before action thereon is taken by the Building Official, and all persons interested in the matter of the petition may appear before the Building Official and be heard relative thereto.

§ 89-3 Liability for expenses.

The owner of every building moved under the provisions of this chapter shall pay to the Town all costs, damages and expenses occasioned to the Town by such removal, to be ascertained by the Town Council, and before removing such building the owner shall give satisfactory bond to the Town Treasurer in such sum as the Town Council shall prescribe, with security satisfactory to the Town Treasurer, for the payment of all such costs, damages and expenses so to be ascertained. The owner shall be further conditioned to pay all costs, damages and expenses that may be caused to the property of, or that may be incurred by, any person in consequence of such removal.

§ 89-4 Management of obstructions.

In case it shall be necessary in the moving of any building, to cut down or trim any tree, or move any post, wire or other obstruction on the line of the street or highway along or across which the building is to be moved, that fact shall be set forth in the petition and notice aforesaid. No tree shall be cut down, or its branches cut off, and no post, wire or other obstruction shall be so moved, unless special permission shall have been given therefor as aforesaid.

§ 89-5 Notice of moving.

Every person engaged in moving any building along or across any of the public streets or highways of this Town shall cause to be posted at a proper distance from such building, signs or notices that the street or highway is impassable by reason of the moving of such building.