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A certificate of compliance shall be required in the following instances:

(a) No vacant land shall be occupied, used, developed or substantially improved; and no building hereafter erected, altered or moved shall be occupied; and no floodland shall be filled, excavated, or developed; and no nonconforming use shall be maintained, renewed or changed until a certificate of compliance shall have been issued by the Kenosha County Department of Planning and Development. Such permit shall show that the building or premises or part thereof and the proposed use thereof are in conformity with the provisions of the ordinance. Such permit shall be issued only when the building or premises and the proposed use thereof conform with all requirements of this ordinance.

(b) No land within the FPO Floodplain Overlay District shall be developed, occupied or used, and no structure hereafter erected, altered, or moved shall be occupied until the applicant submits to the Kenosha County Department of Planning and Development a certification by a registered professional engineer or land surveyor that the floodland regulations set forth in this Ordinance have been fully complied with. Such certification shall include the ground elevations of any site which has been filled; and the first floor and basement floor elevations of any structures permitted by this Ordinance and erected on the site. (3/1/94)

(c) Upon the establishment of a new business or industry in an existing structure as set forth in section 12.05.010(b) of this ordinance. (3/1/94)

Under the above circumstances, no person, firm or corporation shall occupy, use or cause to be used, any land or building as set forth above until the Planning and Development Administrator has issued a written certificate of compliance. [Code § 12.05-5.]