Whenever any person, except those employed under and by direction of the City, desires to break into any street or any public place, for the purpose of making connection with any gas or water pipe, or with any sewer, telephone cable lines or conduits or electrical lines, or for any other purpose, such person shall make application to the Director of Public Service for permission to do so. The Director may grant such a permit, if in his/her opinion, the same is proper and necessary. The charge for the permit shall be ten dollars ($10.00) for each permit; and in addition, the applicant for the excavation permit shall furnish a cash deposit or a certified check approved by the Service Director equivalent to fifty dollars ($50.00) per square yard of surface to be disturbed; plus twelve dollars ($12.00) per lineal foot of curb or gutter to be removed or broken. The cash deposit or certified check is to cover the cost of filling the excavation and restoration of the street or public place to its former condition where the same was excavated, and for the payment of any expense, if any, incurred by the City in replacing or supplying the materials disturbed or removed by such excavation.
(Ord. 55-91. Passed 12-23-91.)