Permit Awareness

PERMIT AWARENESS

We have recently had calls about what qualifies as needing a permit when it comes to electrical, plumbing, and mechanical.

All residents and businesses- Please hire only licensed contractors for all non-minor repairs.

First- ALL TRADE CONTRACTORS must be bonded and have a State of Kansas trade license. All trade contractors doing work inside the City are required to register with the City.

Electical Permit Requirments are: Sec. 4-204. - Permit required.

Any person, firm or corporation desiring to do any electrical work or to make any alteration or additions to any existing wiring in, upon or attached to any building or structure in the city shall make application in writing to the City Clerk for a permit, provided that no permit shall be required for maintenance or minor repairs.

Plumbing Permit Requirments: Sec. 4-406. - Permits required.

No building or premises shall be connected with any public or private sewer or water main and no plumbing shall be installed or reconstructed without written permit issued by the City Clerk, granted upon written application giving the location of the premises and description of the work contemplated. Permits shall be issued only to bonded plumbers or bonded persons, firms or corporations employing a properly certified plumber, or to persons for any plumbing work to be performed personally by such person upon any premises owned by him, except in the plumbing of buildings constructed or remodeled for the purpose of sale or rent. All work shall be in charge of the plumber or person in whose name the permit is issued. No more work is to be done than is authorized in the permit, additional work requiring another permit. When alterations are to be made which cannot be practically constructed in accordance herewith, special permit may be issued by the Inspector, if in his judgment the conditions require it. No permit shall be required for minor repair work by which is meant repair of leaks in pipes, faucets, traps or cocks, opening up stoppage in waste or supply pipes, and traps or drains or replacing broken fixtures when waste pipes are not disturbed and replacing frozen pipes inside of buildings.

Mechanical Permit Requirments: Sec. 4-605. - Permits required.

Any person desiring to install, alter, repair or extend any gas piping in any building or structure shall make application to the City Clerk for a permit therefor. Such application shall contain the location of such building, name and address of the owner and full and complete statement of the work proposed.

Failure to obtain permits can result in a Stop Work Order.