Private Acts of 1967-68 Chapter 74

SECTION 1.  Any person desiring to erect, construct, or reconstruct or to have erected, constructed, or reconstructed any building or other structure in Claiborne County, and any person desiring to alter or have altered any existing building or other structure in Claiborne County shall first apply to the County Executive of Claiborne County for a building permit for such erection, construction, reconstruction or alteration.

The application shall be in a form to be prescribed by the County Executive and shall contain the following information:

(1)  Whether the proposed work is to be new construction or the alteration of an existing structure;

(2) The location and address of the proposed construction or alteration;

(3) The identity of the owner or owners of the premises;

(4) The cost of the completed structure, in the case of new construction, or in the case of the alteration of an existing structure, the value of the structure before and after the alteration; and

(5)  Such other information as the County Executive shall prescribed.

A fee shall be charged of each applicant according to rates adopted by the Claiborne County Legislative Body.  The fee shall be properly accounted for by the County Executive and shall be deposited with the County Trustee on a daily basis, to be deposited in the county general fund.

Upon proper application, duly made and filed, and payment of the proper fee, the County Executive shall then issue a building permit, file a copy in his office and cause a copy to be filed in the office of the County Assessor of Property, so that the fact of such erection, construction, or alteration shall be noted for property tax records and assess such improvements or construction in accordance with the provisions of general law.

SECTION. 2.  [Deleted by Private Acts of 1989, Chapter 33].

SECTION 3.  It is unlawful for any municipality, county, cooperative or utility district to furnish utility services to any property on which a building or other structure is being erected, constructed, reconstructed or altered, or to such building or other structure unless the building permit required by this Act is obtained and displayed thereon.

SECTION 4.  Violation of this Act is a misdemeanor, punishable upon conviction thereof, by a fine of not less than ten dollars ($10.00) nor more than fifty dollars ($50.00).

SECTION 5.  This Act shall have no effect unless it is approved by a two-thirds (2/3) vote of the Quarterly County Court of Claiborne County at or before the next regular meeting of the court occurring more than thirty (30) days after its approval by the Governor.  Its approval or non-approval shall be proclaimed by the presiding officer of the court and certified by him to the Secretary of State.

SECTION 6.  This Act shall take effect, for the purpose of ratifying it pursuant to the provisions of Section 5, upon its passage, the public welfare requiring it, and for all other purposes on July 1, 1967.

Passed:  April 6, 1967.