Any person, partnership, or corporation carrying out construction activity limited to demolishing, dismantling, dismembering, razing, or removing a structure shall in addition to requirements of § 150.095 comply with the following requirements:
(A) The Building Commissioner or his authorized representative may, if reasonably necessary to insure public safety, require the licensed wrecking contractor to submit plans and a complete schedule for demolition. Where such are required, no work shall be accomplished until such plans and schedules are approved by the Building Commissioner or his authorized representative.
(B) Blasting and use of explosives shall be accomplished only by a person who has obtained a blasting permit pursuant to Chapter 93, and by special permission of and under the supervision of the Building Commissioner, the Fire Prevention Bureau of the appropriate jurisdiction, and the Division of Air Pollution Control.
(C) No open fires or other sources of flame except necessary cutting torches are permitted on the inside of the structure which is being wrecked, or in close proximity to flammable materials located outside the structure, and every reasonable precaution shall be taken to prevent the possibility of fire.
(D) Suitable provisions shall be made for the disposal of materials which are accumulated during the wrecking of a structure.
(E) The buildings, foundations, curbs, sidewalks, concrete or asphalt drives, and all appurtenances shall be removed to one foot below the ground line or one foot below subgrade elevation, whichever of the two is lower. Such removal shall also included the removal and disposal of buried or exposed tanks. Concrete slabs, under which a basement, pit, well, or cistern exists, shall be broken and removed.
(F) All rubbish and debris including any goods, merchandise, commodities, products, or materials of any kind which may have been stored within the structure being wrecked or on the property shall be removed or cleaned away, the ground leveled off, and the premises put in clean and sanitary condition; provided, however, that if the property is properly fenced and the erection of a new structure is to be commenced within 90 days, the ground need not be leveled until all such work on the premises is completed.
(G) Material used for fill or grading shall be only material that can be properly compacted in order to avoid future settlement of earth fill-in or the structure erected over such fill. No pieces of stone, lumber, boards, or other material which due to their size or character would prevent proper compacture or would cause later settlement of the surface shall be used in such fill.
(H) When a structure is wrecked and an excavation which at any point is eight or more feet below grade level is left unfilled, the fence portion of the walkway required by § 150.095(B) shall remain at the site. However, the Building Commissioner may approve a fence that does not meet the standards of § 150.095 (B) so long as it is sufficient to prevent persons, especially children, from falling into the excavation.
(Ord. 29-1977, passed 10-17-77) Penalty, see § 150.999