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4.1 A Building Commissioner and Deputy Inspector of Buildings, hereinafter sometimes called the commissioner, shall be appointed annually by the Selectmen for a term of one (1) year or until successors have been appointed. No commissioner shall be financially interested in any construction within the town.
No building within the limits of the town, other than a one-story building for poultry or other farm purposes having a floor area of not more than twelve (12) by fifteen (15) feet, shall be erected, razed, moved, added to or altered in any way, nor the roof thereof reshingled or repapered, until the commissioner shall have issued a permit therefor. No such permit shall be issued by the commissioner until a written application therefor, and except in the case of buildings for general farm purposes, complete plans and specifications or a detailed description of the proposed work in duplicate, shall have been filed with the commissioner at least seven (7) days before such work is commenced. If such application and plans and specifications or descriptions shall be found by the
commissioner to comply with all requirements of the laws of the Commonwealth and the town, he shall promptly issue the permit so applied for. If an application for such permit is denied by the commissioner, he shall notify the applicant in writing of the reasons for such denial.
Any applicant aggrieved by the denial of an application for a permit or for written approval of the commissioner, as hereinafter required, or by restrictions or conditions imposed by the Commissioner upon the exercise of any permit issued by him may appeal to the Board of Appeals in the manner provided by the rules of such Board.
4.3 The commissioner and his agents shall be granted free access at any time to the premises upon which such work is being carried on. The commissioner or his agents shall inspect all buildings being erected, razed, moved, added to or altered, or the roof of which is being reshingled or repapered, as often as necessary to determine that all requirements of the laws of the Commonwealth and the town in relation thereto are complied with and, when necessary, shall take proper measures to secure such compliance. No building hereafter erected, altered or added to, that is to be finished in whole or in part, shall be lathed, plastered or sheathed until the builder or owner shall have notified the commissioner to inspect the same and
shall have received from the commissioner a notice in writing that the work is approved. The Commissioner, on receipt of a notice from the builder or owner that any building, or alterations or additions to any building, are ready for inspection, shall, as soon as possible, inspect the premises, but shall require that all permanent piers, or columns needed under girders, trimmers, etc., shall be in place before the building is lathed or plastered or sheathed.
4.4 No oversight or neglect of duty on the part of the commissioner shall legalize the erection, razing, moving, and adding to, alterations or repair of any building in a manner not in conformity with the provisions of the laws of the Commonwealth and the bylaws of the town.
In case any work on any building is in violation of the provisions of the permit or of existing law, or bylaw, the commissioner shall have the right, and is hereby authorized and empowered, to order that all work in and about said building be stopped.
4.5 Any permit issued by the commissioner shall become void six (6) months after the date thereof, unless operations there under are commenced within such six-month period. Any such permit shall be void if the operations there under, once commenced, are discontinued for a period of more than six (6) months. Permits are not transferable.
4.6 The fees for inspections and the salaries of the commissioner and deputy commissioners shall be set from time to time by the Selectmen.
4.7 In the case of techniques or materials not prohibited by the code, but not included therein, the Selectmen may, in their discretion, accept plans and statements of a registered professional engineer certifying to the safety and durability of the proposed construction. An additional fee may be charged for this consideration.
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