[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Council of
the Town of Glocester as indicated in article histories. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 9-14-1989 (Ch. II, § 1, 2-01-01, Section 1, of
the 1991 Code)[2]]
A.
Any person contemplating the erection, extension,
alteration or repair, moving or demolition of a structure or contemplating
the structural alteration, reroofing, electrical wiring or installation
of plumbing or mechanical equipment, in an existing or new structure,
shall make application for a permit on the prescribed forms in the
office of the Building Official. Said application shall be submitted
prior to the start of construction and shall be accompanied by a fee
according to the schedule established from time to time by the Town
Council for the following. Permit fees are based on valuation of current
construction cost per square foot of floor area as determined by the
Building Official. There shall be available in the Building Official's
office a schedule of current construction costs according to the following
categories:
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First floor of building
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Second floor of building
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Third floor of building
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Unfinished second floors, etc.
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Finished basements
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Unfinished basements
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Garages
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Barns
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Breezeways and enclosed porches
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Open porches
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Sheds
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Swimming pools, in-ground
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Swimming pools, aboveground
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Wooden decks
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B.
Permit fees for:
(1)
A permit for the construction, alteration, removal,
demolition, equipment, electrical work, signs, fire escapes, swimming
pools, etc., and moving buildings.
(2)
Electrical permits.
(3)
Plumbing permits.
(4)
Mechanical permits.
(5)
Demolition or moving permits.
(6)
Wood stove permits.
(7)
Sign permits.
(8)
Reinspection fee per failed or rejected electrical,
plumbing or mechanical inspection. The reinspection fee will apply
if an inspector is locked out of a house after inspection has been
requested and arrangements for access to project were made with Building
Official's office.
(10)
Late filing fees.
C.
No building permit shall be issued by the Building
Official unless all past-due taxes, assessments, fines or fees on
the real estate thereon, due to the Town, have been paid. Notification
of such shall be evidenced by a certificate executed by the Tax Collector
or Deputy Tax Collector.
D.
Permit fees for libraries, fire departments, police
departments, municipal buildings and public schools shall be waived.
Inspection fees for each inspection for electrical, plumbing, and
mechanical shall be required.
[Amended 4-15-1993, effective 5-12-1993]
E.
There shall be no refund, in whole or in part, of
any fee relating to the application for building, electrical, plumbing
or mechanical permit(s).
[Amended 3-17-1994, effective 4-14-1994]
[Adopted 9-14-1989 (Ch. II, § 1, 2-01-01, Section
2, of the 1991 Code)]
[Amended 1-16-2020, effective 1-16-2020]
No permit for the erection of any building shall
be issued unless the building lot abuts a street which has been placed
on the official road map of the Town giving access to the proposed
structure. In addition, before a building permit may be issued, on
any non-Town road (street), such street and the part of the street
abutting the building lot shall be certified by the Technical Review
Committee with input from the Police Department and the appropriate
Fire Department as adequate for ingress/egress in its current condition
for access by fire apparatus, emergency vehicles, school buses, snow
plows and any other Town vehicles necessary for the protection of
health and safety, and that any opportunity for necessary future street
connectivity shall be protected. All previously adopted suitably improved
road lists are hereby repealed.
[Amended 1-16-2020, effective 1-16-2020]
When the Technical Review Committee, with input
from the Police Department and the appropriate Fire Department, has
determined that the ingress/egress for a new structure is not adequate
for access by fire apparatus, emergency vehicles, school buses, snow
plows and any other Town vehicles necessary for the protection of
health and safety in its current condition or will not preserve the
opportunity for necessary future street connectivity, the Glocester
Town Council may, in a specific case and after a public hearing for
which reasonable notice has been given to all interested parties,
and at which parties in interest and others shall have an opportunity
to be heard, make reasonable exceptions and issue a permit subject
to conditions. These conditions shall ensure adequate access by fire
apparatus, emergency vehicles, school buses, snow plows and any other
Town vehicles necessary for the protection of health and safety, and
that any opportunity for necessary future street connectivity is protected.
Applications for such exceptions will be referred by the Glocester
Town Council to the Glocester Planning Board for an advisory opinion
thereon, but all such applications shall be subject to a decision
by the Glocester Town Council after a hearing as provided herein.
All previously adopted suitably improved road lists are hereby repealed.
The Glocester Planning Board is authorized to
adopt, modify and amend rules and regulations reasonably necessary
to carry out the purposes and intent of this article, subject to the
final approval of the Glocester Town Council.
