(a) 
Review required; authority of city secretary.
Until the adoption of a comprehensive zoning ordinance by the city, all requests for building permits for buildings, houses, and other structures to be built or erected within the corporate limits of the city shall be first submitted to the city planning and zoning commission for a report and recommendation before same may be granted or issued by the city secretary. The city secretary is hereby expressly authorized and empowered to perform any and all acts and duties, which acts and duties are usually performed by a building inspector, until such time as the city council shall appoint, by ordinance, a building inspector, or until a building inspector is elected by the qualified voters of the city.
(b) 
Authority of city council.
In case of an adverse report and recommendation by the city planning and zoning commission, the same may be overruled by the city council by a majority vote.
(c) 
Failure of planning and zoning commission to act.
The city planning and zoning commission shall act promptly on all such requests for building permits and, in case any such request is not acted upon within ten days, then such request shall be deemed to have been approved by the city planning and zoning commission, and shall be granted unless denied by the city council.
(d) 
Violations; penalty.
It shall be the duty of the city secretary to enforce the provisions of this section and to refuse to issue any permit for any building which would violate any of the provisions of this section. In case any building is erected, constructed, reconstructed, altered, repaired or converted within the corporate limits of the city in violation of this section, the city secretary is authorized and directed to institute any appropriate action to put an end to any such violation. Any person, association of persons, partnership, or corporation who shall violate any of the provisions of this section or fail to comply therewith or with any of the requirements thereof, or who shall build or alter any building in violation of this section, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be liable to a fine in accordance with the general penalty provided in section 1.01.009 of this code, and each day such violation shall be permitted to exist shall constitute a separate offense. The owner or owners of any building or premises, or part thereof, within the corporate limits of the city, where anything in violation of this section shall be placed or shall exist, and any architect, engineer, builder, contractor, agent, person, association of persons, partnership, or corporation employed in connection therewith, and who may have assisted in the commission of any such violation, shall be guilty of a separate offense, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined as hereinbefore provided.
(Ordinance 34 adopted 8/14/63; Ordinance adopting Code)