This chapter shall be known as the "Building Code of the Town
of Milton" and will be referred to in this chapter as "this code."
This code provides certain minimum standards, provisions and
requirements for safe and stable design methods of construction and
use of materials in buildings and/or structures hereafter erected,
constructed, enlarged, altered, repaired, moved, converted to other
uses or demolished, and regulates the equipment and maintenance, use
and occupancy of all such buildings and/or structures. Its purpose
is to protect and foster the health, safety and well-being of persons
occupying or using such buildings or the general public.
The Town has adopted the certified municipality status as described
in § SPS 361.60, Wis. Adm. Code.
A. Responsibilities. The Town shall assume the following responsibilities
for the Department of Safety and Professional Services (Department):
(1) Provide inspection of commercial buildings with certified commercial
building inspectors.
(2) Provide plan examination of commercial buildings with certified commercial
building inspectors.
B. Plan examination. Drawings, specifications, and calculations for
all the types of buildings and structures, except state-owned buildings
and structures, to be constructed within the limits of the municipality
shall be submitted, if the plans are for any of the following:
(1) A new building or structure containing less than 50,000 cubic feet
of total volume.
(2) An addition to a building or structure where the area of the addition
results in the entire building or structure containing less than 50,000
cubic feet of total volume.
(3) An addition containing no more than 2,500 square feet of total floor
area and no more than one floor level, provided the largest roof span
does not exceed 18 feet and the exterior wall height does not exceed
12 feet.
(4) An alteration of a space involving less than 100,000 cubic feet of
total volume.
(5) A certified municipality may waive its jurisdiction for the plan
review of a specific project or types of projects, or components thereof,
in which case plans and specifications shall be submitted to the Department
for review and approval.
(6) The Department may waive its jurisdiction for the plan review of
a specific project, where agreed to by a certified municipality, in
which case plans and specifications shall be submitted to the certified
municipality for review and approval.
C. Plan submission procedures. All commercial buildings, structures,
and alterations, including new buildings and additions less than 25,000
cubic feet, require plan submission as follows:
(1) Building permit application.
(2) Application for review: SBD-118.
(a)
Fees per Table SPS 302.31-2 and § SPS 302.31, Wis.
Adm. Code.
(b)
Fees apply to all commercial projects.
(3) Four sets of plans.
(a)
Signed and sealed per § SPS 361.31, Wis. Adm. Code.
(b)
One set of specifications.
(c)
Component and system plans.
(d)
Calculations showing code compliance.
No owner or contractor may commence construction of any building
or mechanical system prior to obtaining a valid permit from the Building
Inspector.
A. The construction which shall require a building permit includes,
but is not limited to:
(1) New one- and two-family and commercial buildings, including agricultural
buildings, detached structures (decks), and detached accessory buildings.
(2) Additions increasing the physical dimensions of a building, including
decks.
(3) Alterations to the building structure; cost shall include market
labor value or alterations to the building's heating, electrical,
or plumbing systems.
(4) Replacement of major building equipment, including furnaces and central
air conditioners, water heaters, and any other major piece of equipment,
shall require a permit, except as noted below.
(5) Any electrical wiring for new construction or remodeling, excluding
new wiring for existing industrial and manufacturing facilities that
do not require state-mandated building plan review.
(6) Any HVAC for new construction or remodeling.
(7) Any plumbing for new construction or remodeling.
(8) Any new or rewired electrical service, including services for agricultural
buildings.
B. All fees shall be paid to the building inspector. All fees paid for
permits shall be retained by the Town of Milton and shall not be refunded
if a permit application is disapproved.
C. A building permit shall lapse and be void unless building operations
are commenced within one year from the date of issuance.
D. If the Building Inspector shall find at any time that applicable
ordinances, laws, orders, plans, and specifications are not being
complied with, and the holder of the permit refuses to conform after
a written warning or instruction has been issued to the holder of
the permit, the Building Inspector shall revoke the building permit
by written notice posted at the site of the work. When any such permit
is revoked, it shall be unlawful to do any further work thereunder
until the permit is reissued, excepting such work as the Building
Inspector may order to be done as a condition precedent to the reissuance
of the permit, or as the Building Inspector may require for the preservation
of human life and safety.
E. It shall be the duty of all police officers or other Town officers
to report at once to the Building Inspector any building which is
being carried on without a permit as required by this chapter.
F. The Building Inspector shall keep a record of all permits, fees,
and inspections under this chapter and shall make an annual report
thereon to the Town Board.
Any buildings or structures shall be located as allowed within
the zoned district. Any variances to this requirement shall be reviewed
for approval by application to the Town's Board of Adjustment,
and, in the event the landowner is not satisfied with the Town's
order, he shall have 30 days therefrom to appeal the decision to the
Town Board.
This chapter shall not be construed as assuming any liability
on the part of the Town or any official or employee thereof for damages
to anyone injured or for any property destroyed by a defect in any
building or equipment or in any plumbing or electric wiring or equipment.