[Code 1974 §12-701; CC 2000 §4-801]
No person or persons, either as an individual or as the agent,
employee, officer, representative or member of any firm or corporation,
shall move any frame house or other building or any part thereof from
one place to another within the City and through, over, on or across
any street, avenue, alley or other public thoroughfare within the
City without first making application for and securing property permits
so to do from the City Clerk.
[Code 1985 §4-802; Code 1987; CC 2000 §4-802]
All applications for permits required under the provisions of
this Article shall be made in writing to the City Clerk specifying
the day and hour said moving is to commence and the route through
the City's streets over which the house, building, derrick or other
structure shall be moved and stating whether it will be necessary
to cut and move, raise or in any way interfere with any wires, cables
or other aerial equipment of any public or municipally-owned utility
and, if so, the application shall also state the name of the public
or municipally-owned utility and the time and location that the applicant's
moving operations shall necessitate the cutting, moving, raising or
otherwise interfering with such aerial facilities. The application
shall be made no fewer than three (3) full business days before the
moving is to commence.
[Code 1974 §13-703; CC 2000 §4-803]
Before any application for a moving permit or location permit
is filed, it shall be referred to the Building Inspector of the City
who shall inspect any such house or building described in such application
and if, in his/her opinion, such house or building is in a proper
and fit condition to be moved to the destination designated by the
applicant and that after such moving it will remain in a proper and
fit condition for the use intended, he/she shall endorse his/her certificate
of approval upon the application.
[Code 1985 §4-804; Code 1987; CC 2000 §4-804]
The application for a location or moving permit shall be accompanied by a permit fee as enumerated in Chapter 103, Section 103.040(B).
[Code 1974 §13-705; CC 2000 §4-805]
A.
Whenever
a building to be moved has been disconnected from its foundation,
moving of the building from that site shall be completed within thirty
(30) days.
B.
No building
shall be moved from any site within this City to any other site, not
the final resting site for the building.
C.
No building
shall be moved upon any streets of the City without escort by the
City Police Department.
[Code 1974 §13-706; CC 2000 §4-806]
When an application for a moving permit is filed, with the certificate
of the Building Inspector noted thereon, the City Clerk shall issue
the permit, which permit shall be valid for sixty (60) days from the
date of issuance.
[Code 1985 §4-807; Code 1987; CC 2000 §4-807]
Before the issuance of any permit, the applicant shall file
with the City Clerk proof or certificate of an insurance company authorized
to do business in the State of Kansas showing liability limits of
one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00) per person, three hundred
thousand dollars ($300,000.00) per accident as to personal injury
and fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00) property damage.
[Ord. No. 783 §1, 5-9-1990; CC 2000 §4-808]
Any applicant who intends to remove a structure presently located
within the City or relocate a structure to a location within the City
shall be required to post a performance bond by cash or security in
the amount of thirty-five thousand dollars ($35,000.00) to insure
that the applicant performs all requirements within the allowed time
under a demolition permit or building permit issued for such structure.
[Code 1974 §13-708; CC 2000 §4-809]
The overall height of a building, when loaded up for moving,
shall not exceed twenty-five (25) feet as determined by the Building
Inspector.
[Code 1974 §13-709; CC 2000 §4-810]
No building shall be stopped and left standing for a longer
period than one (1) hour.
[Code 1974 §13-710; CC 2000 §4-811]
Any person, either as an individual or as the officer, agent,
representative, employee or member of any firm or corporation and
whether as the owner or as the representative of such owner of the
house being or to be moved or whether as the contractor for the moving
of any such house, who shall violate any of the provisions of this
Article or who shall order, direct, authorize or permit the violation
of any of the provisions of this Article shall be deemed guilty of
a violation of this Code. Each and every violation of any provisions
of this Article shall be deemed a separate offense and that each separate
day's violation of the provisions of this Article shall be deemed
a separate offense; provided further, that the person making the application
for the permit provided for in this Article, whether as an individual
or as an agent, employee or representative of any firm or corporation,
shall be deemed to have authorized and shall be responsible for any
violation of this Article by any other person in any way connected
with the moving of such house or building, but nothing contained herein
shall be considered as relieving any other person from responsibility
of any violation of the terms of this Article of which such person
may be found guilty.
