Every person making an opening or excavation in or under any street, sidewalk or other public place shall, at his expense, sustain, secure and protect any pipes, poles, mains or conduits laid or erected in the street from injury and replace and pack the earth wherever the same shall have been removed, loosened or disturbed under or around them, so that they shall be well and substantially supported. If any person shall fail to sustain, secure or protect such pipes, poles, mains or conduits from injury or to replace and pack the earth under or around them, as the provisions of this Section require, then the same may be done by the corporation to whom the same may belong and the cost thereof and all damages sustained by such corporation thereby shall be paid by such person, and in default thereof, such corporation may maintain an action against him.
(Ord. 05-05. Passed 4-21-05.)