1h. City Code Amendment Prohibiting Removal of Stop work order, first reading 1
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TO: Mayor Don Chmiel Dete.._..' 22 - 9 I City Council Date Submitrc! to Commission
Don Ashworth, City Manager ��FROM: Scott Harr, Public Safety Director Crtc s:;�: to Council
DATE: August 26, 1992
1 SUBJ: Ordinance Prohibiting Removing a Stop Work Order
Attached is an ordinance that was drafted in response to a request
from the Building Inspections Division. We have run into a number
of occasions recently where people have torn down Stop Work Orders.
I The problem that results is that other contractors and workers
continue to work because they are not aware that no work is to be
occurring. We now have no way to ensure that Stop Work postings
I will not be torn down.
It may interest the Council that the two issues that have been
confronted on Stop Work Orders have involved very significant
II erosion control violations which the contractor has refused to
remedy. It was only after our Engineering Department and Building
Inspections Division unsuccessfully attempted to obtain voluntary
1 compliance that the drastic step of stopping the work until erosion
control was remedied was taken. Even then, these contractors
defiantly ripped up the Stop Work Orders, which meant that in one
1 case, heavy equipment continued across the property, while rains
continued to wash soil from the property unchecked. In the other
case, huge truckloads of dirt continued to be dumped in an area in
which it was not allowed.
I It is the recommendation of staff that this ordinance be adopted.
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CITY OF CHANHASSEN 1
CARVER AND HENNEPIN COUNTIES, MINNESOTA
ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 7 OF
THE CHANHASSEN CITY CODE CONCERNING ,
BUILDINGS AND BUILDING REGULATIONS
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHANHASSEN ORDAINS:
Section 1. Chapter 7, Article II of the Chanhassen City
Code is amended by adding Section 7 -22 to read:
Sec. 7 -22. Stop Orders.
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If pursuant to the Minnesota State Building Code the
Building Official posts a stop work order, it is a misdemeanor
punishable to the maximum extent authorized by Minn. Stat.
§ 412.231 for anyone to destroy or remove the stop work order
unless authorized by the Building Official.
Section 2. This ordinance shall be effective immediately
upon its passage and publication.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Chanhassen City Council this
day of
1992.
ATTEST:
Don Ashwort Clerk / Manager Donald J. '
Chmiel, Mayor
(Published in the Chanhassen Villager on
1992.)
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