(a) The Director of Public Service or the City Engineer shall determine if the installation of a driveway culvert across ditches within a public roadway is necessary to provide ingress and egress to private drives.
(b) The Director or the Engineer shall determine if the crossing of such a ditch for means of ingress and egress to a private drive is impeding the passage of water in the ditch and the draining of the public roadway and obstructing the flow of water in such ditch.
(c) If the Director or the Engineer determines, from his or her inspection of the ditch, that it is necessary to install a driveway culvert in such ditch to permit ingress and egress to a private drive, without impeding or obstructing the flow of water in such ditch, he or she shall notify the record owner of the property that such culvert must be installed within seven working days of such notification. Such notification shall be in writing and mailed to the record property owner at his or her last known address.
(d) If the property owner does not cause the driveway culvert to be installed in accordance with the notification of the Director or the Engineer and this chapter, the Director shall cause a culvert to be installed in the ditch in accordance with the ordinances of the city for the installation of driveway culverts.
(e) If such property owner fails or refuses to comply with the notice provided in subsection (c) hereof and the city installs the culvert, the amount of money so expended by the city shall be billed to the property owner by certified mail. Upon his or her failure to reimburse the city this amount, within five days thereafter, the Director of Law shall collect the same by judicial process. Any judgment uncollected for 30 days after its date shall be recorded in the records of the Clerk of the County Common Pleas Court, as a lien upon the lands of the property owner concerned.
(Ord. 88-O-32, passed 5-16-1988)