[Adopted 3-21-2007 by Ord. No. 2007-3]
Every person engaged in the business of constructing, altering,
or repairing buildings and not a regular employee of a registered
contractor, except those persons who are constructing, altering, or
repairing a building exclusively owned, used and occupied as a residence
by themselves, shall, before engaging in such occupation, submit a
completed contractor registration form to the Code Enforcement Officer.
An employee of a registered contractor must be on the payroll of the
registered contractor for the purpose of federal, state and City withholding
tax and social security withholding.
Any registered contractor will indemnify and save harmless the
City's officials, servants and employees of and from any damage
caused by any negligence in protecting his work or by any unfaithful,
imperfect or inadequate work done by virtue of his registration, and
he also will replace and restore the street pavement or sidewalk over
any opening he may have made to as good a state and condition as it
was found and keep and maintain the same in good order for a period
of six months thereafter.
Fees, in the amounts as established from time to time by resolution
of the City Council, shall be charged for registration.
Any registered contractor who shall construct, alter, repair,
or who shall raise or cause to be raised a building or structure within
the City without first having secured a building permit therefor shall,
upon proof thereof and in addition to other penalties, be deprived
of his registration by the Code Enforcement Officer. Such registration
shall not be reissued to such a person for a period of six months.
A.
Any person who shall violate any provision of this article or who
fails to comply therewith or with any of the requirements thereof
or who shall erect, construct, alter or repair or who has created,
constructed, altered or repaired a building or structure in violation
of a detailed statement or plan submitted and approved thereunder
or of a permit or certificate issued thereunder shall, upon conviction
thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $1,000, plus
costs, or to a term of imprisonment not to exceed 90 days, or both.
Each day that a violation of this article continues shall constitute
a separate offense.
B.
The owner of a building or structure or premises where anything in
violation of this article shall be placed or shall exist and an architect,
builder, contractor, agent, person or corporation employed in connection
therewith and who may have assisted in the commission of such violation
shall each be guilty of a separate offense.
The imposition of penalties for the violation of this article
shall not preclude the City Solicitor from instituting an appropriate
action or proceeding to prevent an unlawful erection, construction,
reconstruction, alteration, repair, conversion, maintenance or use
or to restrain, correct or abate a violation or to prevent the occupancy
of a building, structure or premises or to prevent an illegal act,
conduct, business or use in or about any premises.
