(A) The provisions of this subchapter shall apply to every person who shall place building material in any of the public streets or avenues or who shall be engaged in building any vault or constructing any lateral drain from any cellar to any public sewer or who shall do or perform any work causing obstructions in the public streets by virtue of any permit from an executive department and also to all city officers and employees engaged in performing any work in behalf of the city, whereby obstructions or excavations shall be made in the public streets.
(B) No department, division, bureau, or officer of the city, except the City Engineer or Supervisor of Public Works in an absolute and extreme emergency, shall have the power to grant a permit or permission to any person to dig or make an opening in any public way in the city without a written permit as required by this chapter.
(Prior Code, § 97.081)