(A) Every person engaged in the business of doing any of the work for which a permit may be issued under the provisions of § 70.22 shall, before engaging in any work or before applying for or securing a permit authorizing the breaking or opening of any of the roads, streets, alleys, sidewalks, or public ways within the unincorporated areas of the county, or before placing any material or other obstruction in, upon, across or over the sidewalks, streets, alleys, or public ways of the unincorporated areas of the county, procure and maintain public liability and property damage insurance in some good and solvent insurance company authorized to do business in the state covering any and all claims or judgements for any injury or damage to either person or property occurring or arising in any way or manner or connected in any way or manner with the placing, leaving, or maintaining of any material or other obstruction, in, upon, across, or over any of the sidewalks, streets, alleys, or public ways of the county. The insurance shall provide:
(1) To pay on behalf of the insured all sums which the insured shall become obligated to pay by reason of the liability imposed upon him or her or it by law for damages, including damages for care and loss of services, because of bodily injury, including death, at any time resulting therefrom, sustained by any person or persons, caused by accident and arising out of the performance of any of the foregoing mentioned work, acts, or obligations; and
(2) To pay on behalf of the insured all sums which the insured shall become obligated to pay by reason of the liability imposed upon him or her or it by law for damages because of injury to or destruction of property, including the loss of use thereof, caused by accident and arising out of the performance of any of the foregoing work, acts, or obligations.
(B) The insurance shall be subject to limits of liability for bodily injury for any one accident in an amount of not less than $10,000 for any one person and $20,000 for two or more persons, and shall be subject to limits of liability for property damage for any one accident in an amount of not less than $5,000 per accident.
(C) Before any permit under the provisions of § 70.22 shall be issued, there shall be filed in the office of the County Clerk a certificate signed by the insurance company evidencing the fact the public liability and property damage insurance hereinabove provided for has been issued and paid for by the applicant and is in full force and effect, which certificate shall provide, among other things, that ten days’ written notice shall be given to the County Judge/Executive before the insurance may be canceled, altered, or terminated. This cancellation, alteration, or termination of the insurance shall not become effective until ten days after the same shall have been read and recorded in the official minutes of the Fiscal Court.
(Prior Code, § 40.101) (Ord. 78-5, passed 9-13-1978)