§ 28-351. Applicability to pending contracts and permits.

(a)

The county recognizes that certain parcel owners and duly licensed contractors have entered or will enter into bona fide contracts for construction activities affected by this article prior to June 30, 2006, without actual or sufficient constructive notice of the potential enactment thereof. Any parcel owner or contractor who files a true copy of such construction contract, together with a notarized affidavit on a form supplied by the county (swearing under penalty of perjury as to the authenticity and execution date of said construction contract), with the county development department no later than July 31, 2006, shall be deemed exempted from the requirements of section 4(C) of this article with respect to any construction activities directly related to such contract, provided that a complete building permit application pertaining to said parcel has been accepted for filing by the development department on or before December 31, 2006. Any parcel owner or contractor who has filed their construction contract and building permit application with the development department under this provision and who has not obtained a building permit issued by the building department during one additional one-hundred-eighty-day period running from the filing of a complete building permit application shall no longer be exempted from the requirements of this article and shall be subject thereto.

(b)

The county further recognizes that imposing all of the obligations of this article on construction activities begun prior to or otherwise without sufficient actual or constructive notice of the ordinance requirements would be inequitable. Accordingly, construction activities pursuant to building permits issued prior to July 31, 2006 shall be exempted from section 4(C) of this article.

(c)

Nothing in this section shall be construed to exempt any construction activities from any and all other requirements of the Hernando County Code of Ordinances or from any applicable state or federal laws, rules or regulations.

(Ord. No. 2006-10, § 12, 6-20-06)