[Adopted effective 4-22-1963]
A certain document, three copies of which are
on file with the Town Clerk of the Town of Ellington, known as the
"Basic Building Code, 1957 Edition," with accumulative supplements
to date, be and hereby is adopted as the Building Code of the Town
of Ellington for control of buildings and structures as herein provided,
and each and all of the regulations, provisions, penalties, conditions
and terms of said Basic Building Code are hereby referred to, adopted
and made part hereof as if fully set out in this article.
All ordinances or parts of ordinances of the
Town of Ellington inconsistent with said Basic Building Code hereby
adopted are herewith repealed.
[Added 6-11-1968]
On or after the effective date of this section,
no person, firm or corporation shall install, remove or repair any
septic tank or its appurtenances within the Town of Ellington without
first obtaining a permit from the Building Official and paying a fee
of $15 for the same.
[Added 7-27-1972; amended effective 6-3-1993]
A. Any person who violates any provision of this code
shall be fined not less than $200 nor more than $1,000 or imprisoned
not more than six months or both, as provided by Connecticut General
Statutes § 29-254a.
B. Any person who shall continue any work in or about
the building after having been served with a stop order, except such
work as he is directed to perform to remove a violation of unsafe
conditions, shall be liable to a fine of not less than $200 nor more
than $1,000. Each day that a violation continues shall be deemed a
separate offense.
[Adopted 11-13-2000, effective 12-12-2000]
[Amended by Town Meeting 5-14-2018]
Pursuant to § 7-148, Connecticut General
Statutes, as such statute may be amended from time to time, approval
of all applications for building permits, certificates of occupancy,
or other building applications made to the Building Official of the
Town shall be withheld for any property upon which taxes, sewer charges,
rates or assessments are delinquent for the property for which an
application is made.
[Amended by Town Meeting 5-14-2018]
A. The Board of Selectmen will adopt and implement procedures
to implement this article.
B. Before approving any building application for property
for which the taxes, sewer charges, rates or assessments appear to
be unpaid, the Building Official shall require any applicant for any
building application to obtain a certification from the Tax Collector
that:
(1) The delinquent taxes, sewer charges, rates or assessments
have been paid; or
(2) The taxpayer has entered into an acceptable agreement
with the Tax Collector for the payment of the delinquent taxes, sewer
charges, rates or assessments.
This article shall not apply in situations where
the property is the subject of a tax appeal and the taxpayer has made
the minimum tax payments required by § 12-118 of the Connecticut
General Statutes.
The Building Official may grant a building application
without the satisfaction of the above certifications if he certifies
in writing, as part of the file, that an emergency exists affecting
the health or safety of the occupants of a building upon which property
the building application is sought.