(A) Any person desiring permission to dig into, disturb, or excavate any public street, alley, sidewalk, or other public place of the unincorporated areas of the county and having reasonable or sufficient cause for so doing shall make application for such permission to the County Road Supervisor on an appropriate printed form to be prepared and furnished by him or her for that purpose, showing the place of the proposed excavation, the purpose thereof, and the time when it is expected to be done.
(B) If in the opinion of the County Road Supervisor, the applicant has a reasonable and sufficient cause for making the excavation, he or she will issue a permit therefor, specifying therein a sum of money to be deposited by the applicant, which shall be sufficient to cover the cost of restoring and repairing the street or other place to be excavated. In lieu of requiring the deposit of a certain sum of money for each cutting, the County Road Supervisor, in his or her discretion, may permit an applicant to post a blanket bond to indemnify the county for the cutting of any street, road, and the like, in lieu of making a cash deposit for each cutting. When a blanket bond is posted, the County Road Supervisor shall encumber the bond each time a permit is secured and, when the cutting is properly restored, the County Road Supervisor shall then release the encumbrance against the blanket bond.
(C) Any excavation of any public street or roadway shall be done in such a manner that the surface cut must extend one foot in all directions beyond the excavated area such that the restored roadway surface will overlap existing, non-disturbed base material and sub-grade area. All surface restoration of excavated areas must consist of six inches of compacted dense grade aggregate, six inches of compacted base asphalt, and two inches of surface asphalt compacted. All seams shall be properly sealed with rubberized hot asphalt. In the alternative, eight inches of Class 1 concrete may be applied as a base with an overlay of two inches of surfaced asphalt compacted. All seams shall be properly sealed with rubberized hot asphalt.
(Prior Code, § 40.102) (Ord. 78-5, passed 9-13-1978; Ord. 2003-3, passed 4-9-2003)