§ 47.02. Permit requirements.

(a)

Application. Application for any individual moving operation shall be made to the building code officer, who shall inspect and examine the same with reference to the issuance of such permit with the aid and assistance of the chief of police and director of the department of public works.

(b)

Plans required. All applications for house moving permits shall be accompanied by two (2) sets of plans and specifications or sufficient data on the existing house or structure and plans and specifications or sufficient data on any proposed alterations intended to be effected on said house or structure when relocated on its new location.

(c)

Necessary approvals. No permit shall be granted unless the same is approved by the building code officer, chief of police, and director of public works.

(d)

Inspection by building code officers. It shall be the duty and obligation of the building code officer, when an application for a moving operation has been filed, to inspect the building or structure proposed to be moved and to ascertain whether or not said house or structure is structurally safe to be moved on the streets of the City of Saint Paul and in compliance with the provisions of the state building code.

(e)

No permit under certain conditions. The issuance of any such permit shall not be approved by the building code officer if in the officer's opinion said house or structure is for any reason structurally unsafe for the moving operation proposed to be engaged in.

The issuance of such permit shall not be approved by the building code officer unless the house or structure to be moved does or will comply, when located on the proposed new site, with the regulations of the state building code and the requirements of the zoning code or unless satisfactory evidence is presented to the office of code enforcement that said building or structure will be made to comply with the terms and provisions of said codes.

(f)

Sewer line; water utility; taxes. No permit shall be issued as herein provided for the removal of any building until satisfactory evidence is furnished to the building code officer that all sewer charges and water bills chargeable against the property sought to be moved have been paid, and that all sewer and water connections have been plugged or discontinued as shall be determined by the department of public works and the water utility, and the water meter returned to the water utility, and that satisfactory evidence is presented of the payment of all taxes chargeable against such property.

(g)

Pest control. No permit shall be issued for the removal of any building until satisfactory evidence is furnished to the building code officer that a licensed pest control company has satisfactorily exterminated all nuisance pests from the structure and premises.

Rules and regulations as are reasonably necessary to ensure that a licensed pest control company has adequately applied the use of chemicals, trappings, structural alterations, or other control methods for the extermination of vermin are hereby approved. Said rules and regulations shall be kept on file in the office of the city clerk and shall be open to public inspection during normal business hours. Violations of such rules and regulations shall be a misdemeanor.

(h)

Report and recommendation of building code officer. After the inspection by the building code officer of the house or structure to be moved, the inspection of the plans and specifications or data referred to above, and the proposed site of relocation of said house or structure, the officer shall make a report in writing as to the advisability of the granting of the permit for such moving operation. Such recommendation for the granting or the denial of the permit shall state the basis upon which the opinion of said officer has been arrived at and any conditions which said officer believes should be imposed upon the operation to be engaged in, either in the removal or the house or structure from the old location, the relocation of the house or structure on the new site, or in the actual moving of the house or structure on the new site, or in the actual moving of the house or structure on the streets of this city. Such opinion, recommendation for granting or denial of the permit, and/or conditions to be imposed upon the applicant in the moving operation shall be based upon consideration of the public safety involved in such moving operation and the compliance by applicant with the requirements of this chapter.

(i)

Report of chief of police. It shall be the duty of the chief of police to inspect the application for any moving operation to determine the advisability of this use of the streets, from the viewpoint of traffic and public safety, on and over which the applicant proposes to move said house or structure and the days of the week and the time of day when said applicant proposes to engage in the actual moving operation. The chief of police shall make a report in writing, recommending the granting or refusal of the application for permit, or recommending the imposition of such conditions in the permit pertaining to the route to be taken in such moving operation on the public streets, the particular days of the week and the time of day during which said moving operation shall take place, and any other conditions that may be pertinent to the questions of traffic and public safety involved. Said report shall be transmitted by the chief of police to the building code officer.

(j)

Route inspection; report of director of public works. It is made the duty of the director of the department of public works, upon reference to said director of any application for an individual moving operation, to inspect the route upon which the applicant proposes to conduct any moving operation on the streets of the City of Saint Paul to determine the advisability of the issuance of any such permit in connection with the consideration by said director of the load of the house or structure to be moved, the type, weight and kind of equipment to be used by said mover, and the consideration of any other matter that may be relevant to said operation from the viewpoint of the protection of the public streets proposed to be used. The report of the director of public works shall be transmitted to the building code officer.

(Code 1956, § 349.02; Ord. No. 17334, § 1, 2-27-86)