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- 1 0.25(3)(a)1. —(5)(a) foundations or basement walls are completed. (b) Every application for a zoning permit shall Such survey shall be submitted to the zoning be an application for a certificate of compliance. office prior to the continuation of work on the (c) An application for a certificate of project. compliance for a new use or a change in use of 2. For construction which is located 10' or more land or a building shall be made directly to the from the required setback lines, a location survey zoning administrator. - is not required. The property owner/s and (d) No certificate of compliance for a building contractor/s are responsible for determining or addition thereto, constructed after the effective location compliance. date of this ordinance shall be issued until (b) Upon completion of the project the owner/s construction has been substantially completed or their agent shall notify the zoning division and and the premises inspected and certified by the request an inspection. This inspection must be zoning administrator to be in conformity with the made before a zoning certificate of compliance specifications on which the permit was issued. may be issued as provided by section 10.25(4) The zoning administrator may establish rules by of this ordinance. The owner or his or her agent which a temporary certificate of compliance may shall have all lot corners visibly.staked prior to be issued for a part of a building. requesting an inspection. If the zoning (e) Any person, firm or corporation having a administrator is unable to accurately verify the legal or equitable interest in a property which is location of a building on its lot, he or she may nonconforming as to use or building location may post a stop work order where appropriate and request a certificate of compliance. Said require that a survey map be prepared by a applicant shall present documentary proof that registered land surveyor that will show the , said use was a permitted use at the time it location of the building on its lot before allowing originated or that the building has been erected construction to continue. prior to the adoption of this ordinance and was (c) Stop work order. 1. Whenever the zoning made nonconforming by the adoption of this administrator finds that any construction does ordinance or amendment thereto. After certifying not comply with the provisions,of this ordinance, that the use of the building or land is in fact the zoning administrator shall post, in a nonconforming the zoning administrator shall conspicuous place on the premises, a stop work issue a certificate of compliance stating the use order which shall cause all activity to cease until in question or the location of buildings and the the construction is in compliance with the zoning of the property. ordinance. For a certificate of compliance for new . 2. The card shall provide the following construction, additions, alterations or remodeling information: date of issuance, town and section for which a Dane County Zoning Permit has number, reason for posting and the signature of been issued since August 20, 1970, there shall the inspector posting the card. be no fee charged. For all other certificates of 3. It shall be a violation of the ordinance for compliance, there shall be a fee of $5.00 for the unauthorized removal of the card from the each certificate. premises. (5) Penalties. (a) Any person or persons, (4) Certificate of compliance. (a) No building firm, company or corporation, owner, occupant or addition thereto, constructed after the effective or other user of the premises who violates, . date of this ordinance and no addition to a disobeys, omits, neglects or refuses to comply previously existing building shall be occupied, with or resists the enforcement of any of the except accessory buildings used exclusively for provisions of this ordinance shall be subject to a farming or agricultural purposes and no land forfeiture of not less than five dollars nor more vacant, except that used exclusively for farming than two-hundred dollars and costs, except that or agricultural purposes on the effective day of violations of s. 10.157(4) shall be at the rate of this ordinance, shall be used for any purposes not less than $1,000 nor more that $5,000 per until a certificate of compliance has been issued violation. Each day that a violation is permitted by the county zoning administrator. Every to exist shall constitute a separate offense. certificate of compliance shall state the use and Compliance herewith shall be enforced by occupancy and the location of the building or injunctional order at suit of the county or buildings and indicate that the use of land occupant of real estate within the district affected complies with all of the provisions of this by the regulations of this ordinance. It shall not ordinance. be necessary to prosecute for forfeiture before resorting to injunctional proceedings. Page 10-43 rev. 103100 •