jar546
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How would your jurisdiction handle the following scenario, IF you were to follow your local ordinance, county or state statutes if they applied?
Permit applied, reviewed, approved, paid for and issued. Work never begins. At the 180 day mark the permit expires. One year AFTER the permit expires you get a phone call from the contractor wanting to reinstate the permit. Since it was expired with no work started, it was sent to storage.
Do you:
1) Require a new permit to be applied for?
2) Go through the trouble of retrieving it from storage, reinstate and activate the permit?
3) Other. Please explain.
In my case under state statute, the permit is expired and they have to reapply for a new one. We require an NOC which expires after a year anyway. Unless there were some inspections, an extenuating circumstance such as pre-approval for the delay and the work was substantially completed in the opinion of the AHJ, it is simply null and void and a new one is needed.
Permit applied, reviewed, approved, paid for and issued. Work never begins. At the 180 day mark the permit expires. One year AFTER the permit expires you get a phone call from the contractor wanting to reinstate the permit. Since it was expired with no work started, it was sent to storage.
Do you:
1) Require a new permit to be applied for?
2) Go through the trouble of retrieving it from storage, reinstate and activate the permit?
3) Other. Please explain.
In my case under state statute, the permit is expired and they have to reapply for a new one. We require an NOC which expires after a year anyway. Unless there were some inspections, an extenuating circumstance such as pre-approval for the delay and the work was substantially completed in the opinion of the AHJ, it is simply null and void and a new one is needed.