Martinez Municipal Code Ch. 15.40 Moving Buildings

No person, firm or corporation shall move or cause to be moved any building on, over or along any public street or highway within the City except having first complied with the provisions of this chapter and Section 8.08.100.

(Prior code § 4300)

Any person, firm or corporation desiring to move or have removed a building shall first obtain the written assent to such removal from persons owning a majority of feet front of lots in same block of the street in which it is proposed to locate such removed building; provided, however, that this section shall not apply to any person removing a building upon his own premises and not going upon the premises of any other person, or upon any street, alley or other public place in making such removal.

(Prior code § 4301)

No person shall move, or cause to be moved on, over or through any public street or highway any building without obtaining from the Director of Public Works a permit in writing to do so. The permit shall be issued upon the presentation of the written assent to the removal of such building, or upon the waiver of such assent by the Director of Public Works, and shall not be issued until after the person so applying therefor shall have first delivered to the City Clerk a bond, running to the City, in the sum of $1,000.00 with at least two good and sufficient sureties, approved by the City Manager, which bond shall be conditioned that the party so desiring to move a building in the City will strictly comply with all the conditions and requirements of this chapter and of any ordinance hereafter passed regulating house moving and of any other rule or regulation concerning house moving that may hereafter be passed by the City Council, and that the party will pay any and all damages which may result by reason of any house moving in the City by said party, his agents, employees or workmen, to any fence, tree, pavement, street sidewalk, telegraph pole or wire belonging to the City or belonging to any telegraph or telephone company having a franchise in the City, and conditioned further that said party, said principal, will save, indemnify and keep harmless the City against all liabilities, judgments, costs and expenses which may in anywise accrue against the City in consequence of the granting of such permit, and will in all things strictly comply with the conditions of such permit. Any such bond filed by any person shall operate as a bond for the purposes required by the ordinances of the City, for the term of one year from the date of filing thereof, insofar that no other or additional bond need be given by such party for the removal of houses in the City during the period of one year, and at the expiration of one year a new bond shall be required to be filed by such party before the issuance to such party of any permits hereunder.

(Prior code § 4302)

The permit referred to in Section 15.40.030 shall specify the character of the building to be removed, the place from which and to which the building is to be removed, and the street on, over or through which such removal may be made; and the building shall not be moved on, over or through any other streets, except those named in the permit.

(Prior code § 4303)

The City Council may, at any time, for such cause as it, upon investigation, deems sufficient, revoke any permission or license granted under this chapter. All permits and licenses granted in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, although granted for the nominal term of one year, are held at the pleasure of the Council.

(Prior code § 4307)

All removals made under such permits shall be done in a careful manner, and shall be prosecuted with diligence and shall be under the superintendence and control and to the satisfaction and approval of the superintendent of streets.

(Prior code § 4304)

No person owning or having charge of the removal of any building through the public streets, shall permit the building to be or stand on any street, lane, alley or public grounds within the limits of one block for a longer period than 24 hours.

(Prior code § 4305)

When the cutting or temporary removal of any pole or poles of any public or private telegraph, telephone, electric light wire or any other wire passing along or over any street, lane or alley, becomes necessary for the removal of any building, the person in charge of such removal, at least six hours in advance of reaching the same, shall notify the person or persons having charge of and control over such wire or wires, and the person so notified shall cause such wires to be promptly cut or removed and replaced.

(Prior code § 4306)