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Sec. 32-164. - Permit required.#
No building shall be moved along, across or through any of the public highways or streets within the city without permission of the city council first had and obtained therefor upon petition made as provided in section 32-165. The permit therefor shall prescribe the streets through, along or across which and the time within which such building shall be removed.
(Code 1973, § 23-5; Code 1994, § 34-146)
Sec. 32-165. - Petition for permit.#
Whenever any person shall desire to remove any building along, across or through any of the streets or public highways in the city, he shall present his petition in writing to the city council for permission to make such removal, which petition shall describe the building, its dimensions, location, the place to which it is desired to be removed and the streets along, across and through which such building is to be removed. Every such petition shall be filed, and the cost of advertising the petition shall be deposited with the city clerk. Such clerk shall cause notice of the pendency of such petition and of the time when the petition will be considered by the council to be publicly advertised for at least one week before action thereon by the council, and all persons interested in the matter of the petition may appear before the council and be heard relative thereto.
(Code 1973, § 23-6; Code 1994, § 34-147)
Sec. 32-166. - Owner to pay damages and costs; bond.#
The owner of every building moved along, across or through the streets of the city shall pay to the city all damages, costs and expenses occasioned to the city by such removal to be ascertained by the city council. Before removing such building, the owner shall give bond to the director of finance in such sum as the city council shall prescribe, satisfactory to the council for the payment of all such costs, damages and expenses so to be ascertained. Such bond shall be further conditioned to pay all costs, damages and expenses that may be caused to the property of or that may be incurred by any person in consequence of such removal.
(Code 1973, § 23-7; Code 1994, § 34-148)
Sec. 32-167. - Trimming or moving trees, wires or posts.#
In case it shall be necessary in the moving of any building to cut down or trim any tree or move any post, wire or other obstruction on the line of the street or highway along, across or through which the building is to be moved, that fact shall be set forth in the petition and notice provided for in section 32-165. No tree shall be cut down, nor its branches cut off, and no post, wire or other obstruction shall be so moved, unless special permission shall have been given therefor from the city council.
(Code 1973, § 23-8; Code 1994, § 34-149)
Sec. 32-168. - Signs and notices.#
Every person engaged in moving any building through any of the public streets or highways of the city shall cause to be posted, at a proper distance from the building, signs and notices that such street or highway is impassable by reason of the moving of the building.
(Code 1973, § 23-9; Code 1994, § 34-150)