West Haven City Zoning Code
LAND USE
PERMIT, BUILDING PERMIT, AND CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY
§ 157.690 BUILDING PERMIT REQUIRED.
The use of land or the construction, alteration, repair, removal, or occupancy of any structure or any part thereof, as provided or as restricted in this subchapter, shall not be commenced, or proceeded with, except after the issuance of a written permit for the same by the City Building Inspector; provided that no permit shall be necessary where the erection, construction, reconstruction, or alteration is minor in character as defined herein, or as determined by the Building Inspector.
(Prior Code, § 50.02) (Ord. 2-92, passed - -1992) Penalty, see § 157.999
§ 157.691 CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY REQUIRED.
No land shall be used or occupied, and no building hereafter structurally altered or erected, or shall be used or changed in use, except for agricultural purposes, until a certificate of occupancy shall have been issued by the Building Inspector stating that the building, or the proposed use thereof, or the use of the land, complies with the provisions of this subchapter. A like certificate shall be issued for the purpose of maintaining, renewing, changing, or extending a nonconforming use. A certificate of occupancy, either for the whole or part of a building or structure, shall be applied for coincidentally with the application for a building permit, and shall be issued within ten days after the erection or structural alteration of such building or structure, or part thereof, shall have been completed in conformity with the provisions of this subchapter.
(Prior Code, § 50.04) (Ord. 2-92, passed - -1992) Penalty, see § 157.999
§ 157.692 CHANGES TO BUILDING PERMIT ISSUANCE AND MANAGEMENT PROCESS.
(A) Time permits valid. Except as otherwise provided herein, no building permit, once lawfully issued under the authority of the city, shall remain in force and of any effect, nor shall any building or construction of any type whatsoever be undertaken under the presumed authority of such permit, unless construction shall have begun in earnest and substantial completion of such authorized construction shall have been obtained within 18 months of the original date of issue of said building permit.
(B) Time extension. Notwithstanding the foregoing, and for good cause shown, a building permit lawfully issued under the authority of the city may be extended upon written notification by the builder to the city, and subject to the approval of the city’s Building Inspector, for an additional period not to exceed 24 month.
(C) Additional cost. If a building permit is to be extended under the terms of this subchapter, as set out above, a calculation shall be done as if the request for an extension was a request for an original building permit and applicable fees shall be calculated as of that point in time. This shall be done in order to ascertain what the cost of such a permit would have been if this were a first request for a permit. If the calculation finds that, at the time the permit extension is requested, the permit holder would have been required to pay an amount in excess of the fees paid for the original building permit, the permit holder shall pay the difference before such permit extension shall be valid.
(Prior Code, § 50.06) (Ord. 2-92, passed - -1992; Ord. 11-99, passed 10-20-1999) Penalty, see § 157.999