[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 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 §13-710; 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.