[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of
Lodi 2-21-1977 by Ord. No. 77-2. Amendments noted where applicable.]
A.
There is hereby established in the Borough of Lodi a State Uniform
Construction Code enforcing agency to be known as the "Department
of Inspections," consisting of a Construction Official, Building Subcode
Official, Plumbing Subcode Official, Electrical Subcode Official,
Fire Protection Subcode Official and such other subcode officials
for such additional subcodes as the Commissioner of the Department
of Community Affairs, State of New Jersey, shall hereafter adopt as
part of the State Uniform Construction Code. The Construction Official
shall be the chief administrator of the enforcing agency.
B.
Each official position created in Subsection A hereof shall be filled by a person qualified for each position pursuant to P.L. 1975, c. 217, as amended, and N.J.A.C. 5:23, provided that, in lieu of any particular subcode official, an outside inspection agency may be retained by contract pursuant to N.J.A.C. 5:23. More than one such official position may be held by the same person, provided that such person is qualified pursuant to P.L. 1975, c. 217, and N.J.A.C. 5:23 to hold each such position.
C.
The public shall have the right to do business with the enforcing
agency at one office location except for emergencies and unforeseen
or unavoidable circumstances.
Pursuant to N.J.S.A. 52:27D-127, the Borough of Lodi utilizes
the services of the County Construction Board of Appeals in matters
concerning the uniform construction codes of the State of New Jersey.
B.
The Construction Official shall, with the advice of the subcode officials,
prepare and submit to the Borough Council, biannually, a report recommending
a fee schedule based on the operating expenses of the agency and any
other expenses of the municipality fairly attributable to the enforcement
of the State Uniform Construction Code Act.
C.
Surcharge fee. The enforcing agency shall report to the Bureau of
Housing Inspection annually, at the end of each fiscal year and not
later than July 31, the total amount of the surcharge fee collected
in the fiscal year. In the fiscal year in which the regulations first
become effective, said report shall be for the third and fourth quarters
only.[2]
[Added 9-20-1999 by Ord. No. 200-02]
A.
No disabled person, as defined herein, or parent or sibling of a
disabled person shall be required to pay any municipal fee or charge
in order to secure a construction permit for any construction, reconstruction,
alteration or improvement designed and undertaken solely to promote
accessibility by the disabled person to his own living unit or the
living unit of such parent or sibling of the disabled person.
B.
For purposes of this section, "disabled person" means a person who
has the total and permanent inability to engage in any substantial
gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical
or mental impairment, including blindness, and shall include, but
not be limited to, any resident of this state who is disabled pursuant
to the federal Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. § 416) or
the federal Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 (45 U.S.C. § 231
et seq.), or is rated as having a sixty-percent disability or higher
pursuant to any federal law administered by the United States Veterans'
Act. For purposes of this section, "blindness" means central visual
acuity of 20/200 or less in the better eye with the use of a correcting
lens. An eye which is accompanied by a limitation in the fields of
vision such that the widest diameter of the visual field subtends
an angle no greater than 20° shall be considered as having a central
visual acuity of 20/200 or less.
C.
The waiver of such fees herein shall be applicable only to such of
the intended construction that directly provides for such accessibility
for a disabled person, there being no waiver of fees as to any other
construction, reconstruction, alteration or improvement for which
a construction permit is sought.
