(A) (1) Application for a permit shall be filed with the Public Works Department on a form or forms to be furnished by the city.
(2) Applicants shall follow the requirements of the current edition of Brigham City Public Works Standards.
(B) The Public Works Department may deny the issuance of permits to contractors, utility companies or other permit applicants who have shown by past performance that, in the opinion of the Public Works Department, they will not consistently conform to the Engineering Regulations, Specifications, Design Standards or the requirements of this subchapter.
(C) When necessary, in the judgment of the Public Works Department, to fully determine the relationship of the work proposed to existing or proposed facilities within the public ways, or to determine whether the work proposed complies with the engineering regulations, construction specifications and design standards, the Public Works Department may require the filing of engineering plans, specifications and sketches showing the proposed work in sufficient detail to permit determination of such relationship or compliance, or both, and the application shall be deemed suspended until such plans and sketches are filed and approved.
(D) It shall be unlawful for any person to commence work upon any public way until the Public Works Department has approved the application and until a permit has been issued for such work, except as specifically approved to the contrary in this subchapter or the Brigham City Public Works Standards.
(E) (1) The disapproval or denial of an application by the Public Works Department may be appealed by the applicant to the City Council by filing of a written notice of appeal within ten days of the action of the Public Works Department.
(2) The City Council shall hear such appeal, if written request therefor be timely filed as soon as practical, and render its decision within two weeks following notice of such appeal.
(F) In approving or disapproving work within any public way, or permits therefor, in the inspection of such work; in reviewing plans, sketches or specifications; and generally in the exercise of the authority conferred upon him or her by this subchapter, the Public Works Department shall act in such manner as to preserve and protect the public way and the use thereof, but shall have no authority to govern the actions or inaction of permittees and applicants or other persons which have no relationship to the use, preservation or protection of the public way.
(G) It shall be unlawful for a city, county, state, federal or other government employee to perform routine maintenance work, not involving excavations, without first having obtained a permit therefor.
(Prior Code, § 24.03.030) (Ord. 98-38, passed 8-20-1998) Penalty, see § 153.999