9-124-150 Repair of streets.
   Any person owning or operating a street railroad in the city shall keep in good repair such portions of the streets as he agreed or may agree with said city to keep in good repair.
   Whenever any person owning or operating any street railway track in, upon, along or across any of the public ways or other public places within the city, shall be required to pave or repave any part of any public way, or shall proceed to pave or repave any part of any such public way, it shall be unlawful for any such person to lay down or place any pavement or other material across the top of any sewer, manhole, or other opening necessary to reach such sewer. If in the performance of such work it shall be necessary or desirable to raise the grade of such pavement or of such street, it shall be the duty of the person doing such work to bring the top of such sewer, manhole, or other opening, up to the level of the new grade thus established, so that the top of the cover of such manhole or other opening shall be flush and level with the surface of such pavement when completed.
   The commissioner of transportation shall see that the provisions of this section are complied with, and shall require all employees of the department of transformation to report to said commissioner all cases that come to their knowledge of any neglect or failure of any such person to comply.
(Prior code § 188-18; Amend Coun. J. 11-8-12, p. 38872, § 174)