(A) Emergency situations. Each registrant shall promptly notify the City Engineer of any event regarding its facilities which it considers to be an emergency. In any emergency event relating to registrant's facilities or arising out of its installation of such facilities, the registrant shall proceed to take whatever actions are necessary in order to respond to the emergency. In the event that the city becomes aware of an emergency regarding a registrant's facilities, the Department may attempt to contact the local representative of each registrant affected, or potentially affected, by the emergency and shall enforce the Emergency Response Plan submitted by the registrant. In any event, the Department may take whatever action it deems necessary in order to respond to the emergency, the reasonable and documented direct cost of which shall be borne by the registrant whose facilities occasioned the emergency. Each registrant shall be responsible for the cost of repairing any facilities that it or its facilities damage at any time, or that are damaged during an emergency caused by the registrant or its facilities.
In addition to the above, in the event that an emergency does arise, the registrant shall provide the following:
(1) A Public Relations/Customer Service Representative shall be contacted immediately for all emergencies and shall be available to handle all homeowner questions and issues as well as media information. Such activities shall be coordinated with the city's Public Relations Office.
(2) The name, address and telephone number of the company retained by the registrant to handle all emergency matters, including but not limited to immediate repair of any of the facilities and/or property affected by the emergency situation.
(B) Minor construction. For those instances relating to minor construction or individual service repair work being done to one flag of the sidewalk, the registrant shall provide written notification to the city 24 hours prior to the commencement of such work.
(Ord. O-2000-29, passed 7-19-00; Am. Ord. O-2020-14, passed 10-7-20)