(a) Preconstruction Meeting and Work Schedules. Prior to the commencement of any project involving the City Engineer and/or the County Sanitary Engineer, a preconstruction meeting shall be held at the City Engineer's office. At this time the project will be discussed in regard to procedure, materials, inspection and similar matters.
(b) Construction Inspections.
(1) Responsibility. The City Engineer shall be responsible for the inspection of all street improvements, including storm sewers. The County Sanitary Engineer shall be responsible for the inspection of all sanitary and storm sewers.
(2) Authority and duties of inspectors. An inspector employed by the City Engineer and/or the County Sanitary Engineer shall be authorized to inspect all work done and all material furnished. Such inspection may extend to all or any part of the work and to the preparation, fabrication or manufacture of the materials to be used. The inspector shall not be authorized to revoke, alter or waive any requirements of the specifications or plans. He shall be authorized to call the attention of the contractor to any failure of the work or materials to conform to the specifications and contract, reject materials which do not meet specification requirements or to suspend that portion of the work involved until any question at issue can be referred to and decided by the engineers.
Continual inspection, during the installations of improvements, shall be made by the inspector to insure conformity with the approved plans and specifications as contained in the subdivider's construction agreement.
(3) Final inspection. Upon completion of all the improvements, the subdivider shall request, in writing, a final inspection by the City Engineer, as required by Ohio R.C. 711.091. The City Engineer shall make a final inspection of streets and storm sewers. The County Sanitary Engineer shall make a final inspection of all sanitary and storm sewers.
(c) Construction Responsibilities.
(1) Cooperation of subdivider and/or contractor; superintendent. The subdivider and/or contractor shall have available on the project, at all times, two copies of all required approved plans and specifications. He shall cooperate with the inspector and with other contractors in every way possible. The subdivider and/or contractor shall, at all times, have a competent superintendent acting as his agent on the project who shall be capable of reading and thoroughly understanding the plans and specifications. The superintendent shall receive instructions from the inspector and shall have full authority to execute the orders or directions of the inspector and to supply promptly such materials, tools, plant equipment and labor as may be required. The inspector's orders shall be executed without delay. A superintendent shall be hired for the project irrespective of the amount of work sublet.
(2) Work schedules. The subdivider and/or contractor shall submit weekly work schedules, on forms provided by the City Engineer, every Friday for the following week's work. Work which has not been properly scheduled shall not be accepted by the City Engineer. All work scheduled must be inspected and approved by the City and County inspectors. Unsatisfactory progress reports shall be returned so that indicated corrections can be made. The normal work week is assumed to be an eight-hour day, Monday through Friday. If overtime will be needed, it shall be indicated on the schedule.
(3) Grade stakes. Pavement and pipe grade stakes shall be set at twenty-five foot intervals on horizontal and vertical curves and for all grades less than one-half percent. Tangent pavement grades and pipe grades over one percent may be set at a maximum interval of fifty feet. The inspector may ask for additional grade stakes if he deems them necessary.
(4) Repair of damage. Any damage done to the improvements by construction traffic or local traffic or by any other means shall be repaired or the damaged materials replaced before the next item of construction is begun.
(5) Final clean-up. Upon completion of the work and before acceptance, the subdivider and/or contractor shall clean all ground occupied or affected by him in connection with the project. The entire area shall be left in a neat and presentable condition satisfactory to the inspector.
(6) Maintenance of improvements. The subdivider shall be responsible for the maintenance of the improvements installed and for providing the services necessary to guarantee access to all the occupied lots, including access by snow plows, until final acceptance by the City Engineer. The subdivider shall be given adequate and appropriate notice by the City Engineer of the need for such maintenance or service. If the subdivider fails to perform such necessary maintenance or service within an appropriate time, the City Engineer may cause the services to be performed and bill the subdivider for the cost thereof. Payment shall be guaranteed by the maintenance bond. No road will be accepted by the City Engineer until one winter has passed without deterioration of such road.
The subdivider shall maintain all improvements for the periods specified in Section 1230.04(d).
(Ord. 95-71. Passed 1-24-72.)
(Ord. 95-71. Passed 1-24-72.)