17.08.110 Permit issuance.
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A. After the plan review process has been completed, required approvals from other departments have been obtained, and all fees that are due at the time of permit issuance have been collected by the city, the building official or designee shall issue the building permit.
1. The building official may issue a permit for the construction of part of a building, structure or building service equipment before the entire plans and specifications for the whole building, structure or building service equipment have been submitted or approved, provided adequate information and detailed statements have been filed complying with all pertinent requirements of this code and the technical codes. The holder of a partial permit shall proceed without assurance that the permit for the entire building structure or building services will be granted.
B. Limitations. The issuance of a permit or approval of plans, specifications and computations shall not be construed to be a permit for or an approval of any violation of any provision of this code, the technical codes or an any other ordinance of the city. Permits presuming to give authority to violate or cancel the provisions of this code or of other ordinances of the city shall not be valid.
C. Corrective action. The issuance of a permit based on plans, specifications and other data shall not prevent the building official from thereafter requiring the correction of errors in said plans, specifications and other data.
D. Expiration. Every permit issued shall become invalid unless the work on the site authorized by such permit is commenced within 180 days after its issuance. CMI and RES permits expire two years from date of issuance. DMO permits expire 90 days from the date of issuance. FRI permits associated with CMI and RES permit expire two years from the date of issuance. Annual permits shall expire one year from the date of issuance. All other permits regulated by VMC Title 17 expire 180 days after permit issuance. When a permit has been obtained as a result of code enforcement action, the building official may set a requirement for the permitted work to be completed by date certain thus limiting the permit expiration date.
1. A permit holder who holds an unexpired permit, that was not obtained as a result of a code enforcement action, may apply in writing for an extension of time within which work may commence under that permit when the permit holder is unable to commence work, or obtain an approved inspection, within the time required by this section for good and satisfactory reasons. The building official is authorized to grant one extension not to exceed 180 days. Permits shall not be extended more than once.
2. When a permit has expired, before such work can be recommenced, a new permit shall be first obtained to do so and the fee for such permit shall be up to one-half the amount required for a new permit for such work to be determined by the Building Official based on estimated staff time needed, provided no changes have been made or will be made in the original plans and specifications for said work and provided further that such suspension or abandonment has not exceeded one year, and there has not been a new edition of the state building code adopted. At the building official’s discretion a permit may be reactivated to complete the inspection process. New permits required by this section are subject to investigation fees where applicable.
3. Where work has been suspended or abandoned for a period exceeding one year, a new application shall be filed and a new permit obtained and fees shall be paid prior to recommencing work.
4. It is a violation of this code to allow a permit to expire after work has commenced without obtaining the required inspection approvals. The property owner and the contractor(s) are responsible for violations of this chapter, including, but not limited to, the expiration of a permit.
E. Suspension or revocation. The building official may, in writing, suspend or revoke a permit issued under the provisions of this code and the technical codes when the permit is issued in error or on the basis of incorrect information supplied or in violation of an ordinance or regulation or the provisions of this code or the technical codes. An order to revoke a permit shall comply with VMC Title 22.
F. Duties of the property owner and the project contractor(s). It shall be the responsibility of the property owner, the project contractor(s) and the permit holder to ensure that all work that is authorized by a permit is in conformance with the permit and all applicable codes and ordinances. Where correction of work is required, it shall be the responsibility of the property owner and the project contractor(s) to correct the work and obtain re-inspection and the required approvals. (Ord. M-4407 § 4, 2023; Ord. M-4165 § 3, 2016; Ord. M-4079 § 10, 2014; Ord. M-3863 § 7, 2008; Ord. M-3660 § 4, 2004)