1. A certificate of occupancy shall be required for any of the following:
A. Use and occupancy of any building or other structure hereafter erected or altered, for which a zoning permit is required.
B. Change in use of any building or structure or any part thereof.
C. Use of land or change in the use thereof, except that the placing of vacant land under cultivation shall not require a certificate of occupancy.
D. Change in use or extension of a nonconforming use.
2. It shall be unlawful for any person to use or occupy any building or other structure or land until a use and occupancy permit, if required, has been duly issued.
3. All applications for certificates of occupancy shall be made in writing by the landowner or his authorized agent on forms furnished by the Township and shall include all information necessary to enable the Zoning Officer to ascertain compliance with this chapter.
4. No certificate of occupancy shall be issued until the Zoning Officer has certified that the proposed use complies with all the provisions of this chapter and all other ordinances, regulations and codes of the Township.
5. A certificate indicating that a representative sample of the well water was taken and tested by the Testing Laboratory within 30 days of the application for an occupancy permit, and indicating compliance or lack of compliance of the well water (specifying each contaminant which does not comply) shall be supplied to the Township Zoning Officer together with the application for the occupancy permit.
6. No occupancy permit will be issued for any lot unless the lot contains a well which has a production of not less than six gallons per minute as established by the bailor test or an equivalent test satisfactory to the Township Engineer and unless the water quality of the well meets the aforementioned standards or unless the plans for the building include detailed plans for a treatment system which is certified by a professional engineer to bring the water into compliance with the aforementioned standards.
7. In addition, the applicant for an occupancy permit must agree that in the event the water is not in compliance with the aforementioned standards, that the applicant will give the purchasers of the property (if different from the applicant) a copy of the water certification specifying each contaminant which does not comply with the standards, and a description (including plans) of the system which will be installed to bring the water quality into compliance together with instructions as to how the system must be maintained prior to settlement on the property.
