§ 158-18. Moving of buildings.

A. 

No person shall remove or cause or permit to be removed, or shall aid or assist in removing, any building, shed or other structure into, along or across any street, alley, square or public ground in the City of Lockport without first having obtained permission from the Common Council.

B. 

Application for such permission must be accompanied by a public liability and property damage insurance policy in a sum to be fixed by the Commissioner of Public Works and of a form approved by the Corporation Counsel of the City of Lockport, indemnifying and saving harmless the City against all loss, cost, damage or expense incurred or sustained by or recovery against the City by reason of such removing, and shall further be accompanied by written consent of the telegraph, telephone or electric light company or companies in the City of Lockport for such removal.

C. 

The person removing such building, shed or structure as aforesaid or the owner thereof shall, within 24 hours prior to such removal, notify the Chief of Police and the Chief of the Fire Department of the City that such removal will occur and the time of such removal and the street or streets over which such removal will take place.

D. 

No owner, agent of the owner, contractor or other person shall permit or suffer such building, shed or other structure to remain in any street, alley, square or public ground for a longer time than one day after notice from the Commissioner of Public Works to remove the same.

E. 

Whenever and so long as any such building, shed or other structure or any section or part of the same shall remain in or upon any said street, alley, square or public ground while undergoing the operation of removal as aforesaid, the person removing the same or the owner thereof shall, by night, keep one or more lighted lanterns or other good and sufficient light at each end of said building so as to give sufficient notice of the obstruction.

F. 

Permission for such removal shall be granted with the distinct understanding that whatever damage, if any, may be done or occasioned to any electric light, telephone, telegraph or other wires strung in such street, or to any poles, standards, paving, sidewalks or curbs in such street, or to any other appurtenance or thing in such street, by reason of the removing of such building, shed or other structure, shall be borne by the person to whom permission is given or the owner of such building, shed or structure, or both of them.