A zoning permit shall be required in the following
instances:
A. Before changing the use of any building, structure,
lot or parcel of land or a portion thereof or allowing said change.
B. Before constructing, erecting, altering or enlarging
or permitting the construction, erection, alteration or enlargement
of any building or structure on a lot or tract of land or before occupying
any building, structure, lot or tract of land where the use has been
changed.
A zoning permit shall show that every building
or premises or part thereof and the proposed use thereof are in conformity
with the provisions of the Zoning Ordinance or in conformity with
the provisions of a variance granted according to law.
All zoning permits shall be issued in triplicate,
and one copy shall be posted conspicuously on the premises affected
whenever construction work is being performed thereon. No owner, contractor,
workman or other person shall perform any building operations of any
kind unless the zoning permit covering such operation has been previously
issued. Furthermore, no building operations of any kind shall be performed
after notification of the revocation of said zoning permit.
A record shall be kept of all zoning permits
issued, and the original applications therefor shall be kept on file
in the same manner as applications for building permits. No owner,
tenant or other person shall use or occupy any building or structure
hereafter erected or altered, the use of which shall be changed after
passage of this chapter, without first obtaining a zoning permit.
A zoning permit, unless revoked, shall continue
in effect so long as there is no change of use of the premises.
The Zoning Officer may waive plans on minor
alterations not affecting structural change.
The Zoning Officer shall collect a fee of $20.
for each zoning permit so issued, except that if a certificate of
occupancy is required, no additional charge shall be made for issuance
of a zoning permit.
If it shall appear at any time to the Zoning
Officer that the application or accompanying plans are in any material
respect false or misleading or that the work being done upon the premises
is materially different from that called for in the application previously
filed with him or may be in violation of any provision of this chapter
or that the conditions imposed by either the Planning Board or the
Board of Adjustment are not being met within the time or in the manner
required by the approving authority, he may forthwith revoke the zoning
permit.