The advisory plan commission may delegate such responsibilities as it deems necessary for the enforcement hereof to the planning director or any other person designated by them.

5.1.1.

Within the jurisdictional area of the Warsaw plan commission no structure, improvement, or use of land may be altered, changed, placed, erected or located on platted or unplatted lands unless the structure, improvement, or use and its location conform with the comprehensive plan and ordinances of the City of Warsaw, and an improvement location permit for such structure, improvement, or use has been issued, except that no permit is required for buildings used exclusively for agricultural purposes on a tract of land containing five acres or more unless used for residence purposes.

5.1.2.

The building commissioner of the City of Warsaw shall issue an improvement location permit, upon written application, when the proposed structure, improvement, or use and its location conform in all respects to the comprehensive plan of the City of Warsaw.

5.1.3.

Every application for an improvement location permit shall be accompanied by a site plan (drawn to scale if required by the building commissioner) showing the location of the structure, improvement or use to be altered, changed, placed, erected or located, the dimensions of the lot to be improved, the size of yards and open spaces, existing and proposed streets and alleys adjoining or within the lot, and the manner in which the location is to be improved. Application for an improvement location permit shall be accompanied by a fee in accordance with the fee schedule in effect at the time of application.

5.1.4.

Within seven days following the issuance of an improvement location permit, the applicant shall post such permit in a conspicuous place, on the lot for which said permit was issued.

5.1.5.

Any decision of the building commissioner of the City of Warsaw concerning the issuance of an improvement location permit may be appealed to the board of zoning appeals by any person claiming to be adversely affected by such decision, within 30 days from such decision.

State Law reference— Improvement location permits, IC 36-7-4-800 et seq.

5.2.1.

A certificate of occupancy shall be deemed implicit with the granting of an improvement location permit and shall imply that the building and use comply with all the provisions of the ordinance applicable to the building or premises or the use in the district in which it is to be located.