§ 17-51. Construction or repairing of buildings, etc.; permit required.

This section includes any work on any property within the city. It shall be unlawful to perform any work including the erection, grading, excavating, demolition, alteration or repair of any building, and the excavation, construction and repair of streets and highways, other than between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m., local time, on weekdays, except in case of urgent necessity in the interest of public safety and health, and then only with a permit from the building inspector, which permit may be granted for a period not to exceed three days or less while the emergency continues, and which permit may be renewed for periods of three days or less while the emergency continues. If the building inspector should determine that the public health and safety will not be impaired by the erection, demolition, alteration or repair of any building or the excavation of streets and highways within the hours of 7:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. local time, and if he shall further determine loss or inconvenience would result to any party in interest, he may grant permission for such work to be done within the hours of 7:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m., local time, upon application being made at the time a permit for the work is awarded or during the progress of the work; provided, that this section shall not apply to the homeowner or occupant in making repairs or doing construction work on his own residential premises; and providing further that this section shall not apply to those persons other than the owner or occupants making repairs or doing construction work if said work is relatively quiet in nature, such as painting, lathing, plastering, insulating, trimming inside a house, glazing and other comparable work, as long as motorized equipment is not required for any phase of the work, after the hours of 1:00 p.m. on weekdays and after 10:00 a.m. on Sundays, except that no construction work of any kind shall be allowed prior to 10:00 a.m. on any Sunday.

(Code 1958, § 4-203; Ord. No. 122, § 1, 5-11-59; Ord. No. 328, § 1, 3-4-68)

Cross reference

Buildings and building regulation, Ch. 6.