Township of Long Beach, NJ Occupancy of Public Street for Elevating or Raising Homes to Comply with FEMA Base Flood Elevations

Property owners in the Township of Long Beach may, pursuant to the following regulations, be granted a permit to relocate their building on a public Long Beach Township managed street following the hereinbelow requirements:

(1)

A formal application shall be made to the Building Department of the Township of Long Beach at least 15 business days prior to the contractor desiring to commence work to relocate the building.

(2)

The application must be contained on a form provided by the Long Beach Township Building Department.

(3)

The application must be approved by the Long Beach Township Police Department, the Long Beach Township Engineer, the Long Beach Township Building Department and the Volunteer Fire Company servicing the area where the house is to be relocated.

(a)

If the house is to be placed on an easement rather than a public street controlled and supervised by the Township of Long Beach, it must be accompanied by signed approval, signed by all of the owners having right to use the easement.

(4)

Any permit shall provide that the permittee will have a maximum use of the roadway for location of the building for no more than 10 days, weather permitting. If inclement weather delays the efforts of the contractors engaged to raise the house for any period during the ten-day period, the 10 days may be extended one for one for each day in which work was halted because of inclement weather.

(a)

If, due to unforeseen circumstances, the project is delayed for more than 10 days, the Building Department may, upon application made by the permittee, extend the ten-day period for a reasonable time if the Building Department shall determine the unforeseen circumstances justify such extension.

(b)

By way of illustration and not by way of limitation, unforeseen circumstances justifying further extensions may be unexpected and serious illness of the permittee or permittee's principal employees, unexpected equipment breakdown requiring additional time to repair or replace, or any other cause beyond the control of the permittee which the Building Department may reasonably determine justifies an extension.

(5)

Any permit shall provide that the permittee must maintain at least 15 feet of clear, unobstructed roadway in order for vehicular travel to pass around the structure.

[Amended 4-25-2014 by Ord. No. 14-11C]

(6)

All utility disconnects, including but not limited to electric, telephone, gas, water and television, are the responsibility of the contractor, who must provide advance notice to each utility of at least five days prior to the disconnect.

(7)

Prior to the issuance of any permit, the owner must post a cash bond of $5,000 with the Township of Long Beach to ensure appropriate roadway repairs at the completion of the project.

(8)

Any permit issued shall be valid for work to be done only between 7:00 a.m. weekdays and 9:00 a.m. Saturdays through 6:00 p.m. on each day. No permit shall be effective and no work shall be permitted between 6:00 p.m. June 15 and 7:00 a.m. of the following September 15. All times shall be local time prevailing.

(9)

Any permit must require that the contractor shall provide uniformed traffic control officer(s) and appropriate traffic control devices as may be required by the Long Beach Township Police Department.

Permits as hereinabove provided for in Subsection A may be issued only to a property owner in the Township of Long Beach who wishes to raise or elevate a building in order to comply with FEMA base flood elevation requirements and the ordinances of the Township of Long Beach enforcing or applying such base flood elevation requirements.

Occupancy of a public street for more than the period permitted above in Subsection A(4) shall be punished by one or more of the following: imprisonment in the Ocean County jail for a term not exceeding 90 days, by a fine not exceeding $2,000, or both such fine and imprisonment, or by a period of community service not to exceed 90 days. Any person convicted of a violation of this article may, in the discretion of the court and in default of the payment of any fine imposed by the court, be imprisoned in the county jail for a term not exceeding 90 days.

Each day or portion thereof beyond the period permitted in Subsection A(4) above shall constitute a separate offense for which a separate summons shall be issued, and, upon conviction of any such separate summons, the penalties imposed pursuant to Subsection C above shall, in the discretion of the court, be imposed.