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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd 199 11/02/1937 / " ,',/ n Ntr'~ AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF A BUILDING COKMITTEE .AJ'D PRESCRIBING ITS DUTIES. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE PRESIDENT AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE VILLAGE OF MOUNT PROSPECT, ILLINOIS: SECTION 1. That in addition to the committees now existing or functioning, consisting of members of the Board of Trustees of this Village, there be and hereby is created a committee to be known as the Committee on Buildings. Such committee shall consist of three (3) members of the Board of Trustees and shall be appointed by the President of the Village in the same manner as other committees of said Board are appointed from time to time~ One member of such committee shall be appointed as the Chairman thereof. SECTION 2. It shall be the duty of such 60mmittee on Buildings to examine all plans and specifications accompanying applications for building permits received by the Superintendant of Building Construction and transmitted to such committee for examination and approval. SUch committee shall examine into and ii 'I I ;1 i ;1 :1 proposed to be erected in this Village compJiy with the Building ,I i determine whether such plans and specifications for buildings Ordinances, rules and regulations of this Village and the :1 'I Zoning Ordinances and the amendments thereto in force in this Village. It shall also be the duty of such committee to determine whether or not a building proposed to be erected, and for which application for building permit has been made, shall violate any building restrictions affecting the premises upon which such building is proposed to be located. Such committee, if it deems it advisable, may refer any questions arising in connection with applications for building permits to the President and Board of Trustees for action thereon, and may, withi the consent of the Board of Trustees, engage the services of an architect or engineer ~o aid 1\ when necessary, in passing upon i ~ i 'I I I , 1 I I I I I I I I I I I il :! &' ii(;' ~.. ..~~"",~~,,,,,,,'~,,",,--,,,,,,,, ,. such applioations, plans and speoifioations. When it shall appear! to suoh committee that an application for a building permit and the plans and specifications filed therewith are in due form and manner, as presoribed by the ordinances of this Village and conform to t.. provisions of the Building and Zoning Ordinances , of this Village, and that the building proposed to be erected thereunder does not violate any building restrictions affecting the premises upon whioh same is proposed to be located, such committee shall approve such application and refer it back to the Superintendent of Building Construction for the issuance of a permit; and it is hereby made the duty of said committee to approve or reject any plans or specifications submitted to it pursuant to the proVr't~~B of this ordinance within a reasonable time, not exOeeding~(IEn d~ys. SECTION 3. It is hereby made the duty of the Buperintendenm of Building Construction to submit all applications for building permits, together with the accompanying plans and specifications for the oonstruotion of new buildings or for repairing or altering existing buildings oontemplating or involving the renewal of any external or division wall or portions thereof, to the Committee I I on Buildings for examination and approval of suoh plans and I speoifioations. Upon the written approval by said committee of ! I such applications, plans and speoifications, it shall be the I :1 duty of the Superintendent of Building construction to issue il permit therefor forthwith. No building permit shall be issued II I. by the Superintendent of Building Construction unless the plans il Ii and specifications therefor shall have been approved by the i i Committee on Buildings. Ii 'I I' II Ii II II Ii II II r II I a I: - - II r il -~ (; "- SECTION 4. r '" This ordinanoe shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and approval and shall be known as Ordinance No. PASSED this APPROVED this ,I I I i j I I , i :, I' il it II II I' J . y/ day of November, A. D. 1937. ~~ ~- day of November, A.D. 1937. C\. ~. ,8~f'""M resident.