(A) Required. No sanitary sewer, storm sewer, private sewage treatment system, piping for and connections to fresh water supply, installation of any trapped fixture or any other item constituting any part of a plumbing system, may be installed or altered within the corporate limits of the city, until a permit for such installation or alteration has been obtained from the Director of Community Development or his or her designee.
(B) Void; renewal; extension.
(1) If, after a permit has been granted, the operations covered by said permit have not begun within three months after the date thereof, or except as hereinafter provided, if such operations are not completed within one year from said date, then such permit shall be void, and no operations thereunder shall be started or completed until a renewal of said permit is obtained. A fee of 10% of the original permit cost shall be charged for such renewal. The minimum renewal fee shall be in accordance with the most recent fee schedule, approved by the City Council and on file in the Office of the Director of Community Development.
(2) If the amount of work to be accomplished under the permit is of such scope that completion within one year is not possible, the Director of Community Development may extend the validity of the permit for such additional period as he or she deems necessary, but not to exceed one year, without additional fee.
(C) Occupation, obstruction or use of streets, sidewalks and public property; permit required. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation other than an authorized official of the city in the performance of his or her duties, to make any excavation in any street, alley or public place, or to tunnel under any street, alley or public place in the city without first having obtained a permit as herein required or without complying with the regulations herein contained.
(D) Application and fee. Applications for such permits shall be made to the Director of Community Development or his or her designee and shall state thereon the location of the intended excavations or tunnel, the size thereof, the purpose therefor, and the person, firm or corporation doing the actual excavating, and the name of the person, firm or corporation for whom the work is being done.
(E) Deposit; bond.
(1) Every contractor, person, firm or corporation making any improvement in the city which requires the digging into, taking up or otherwise disturbing any portion of the paved roadway or parkway of any street in the city shall deposit with the city, in cash, a sum as set out in the fee schedule per permit issued.
(2) Such deposit shall be returned after the work is finished; but, in the event that such person, firm or corporation shall fail or neglect to place or maintain any such light or barricade or to restore the pavement, sidewalk or parkway as herein provided, the Director of Community Development may proceed to have such light or barricade lighted, or placed at such obstruction or opening, or to restore the pavement, sidewalk or parkway as herein provided and the cost of doing so shall be deducted from the deposit before it will be returned.
(3) In lieu of the $500 cash deposit required above, the person, firm or corporation may deposit a $1,000 cash bond that shall be attributable to any street opening permit issued in the name of said person, firm or corporation. The $1,000 cash bond shall be subject to deductions, for costs incurred by the city, as stated hereinabove. Whenever the bond is reduced below the $1,000 minimum, no subsequent street opening permit will be issued to that person, firm or corporation until sufficient funds are deposited to restore the bond to the full $1,000 value.
(F) Restoring streets and parkways.
(1) In the making of any improvement which requires the digging into, taking up or otherwise disturbing any portion of the paved roadway of any street in the city, the permit, plans, specifications and contract for such improvements, shall provide for the restoration of such pavement to the same condition it was in before work on such improvement was begun, and whenever in the making of such improvement it is necessary to take up any draintile used for street drainage or for any public use. The person, firm or corporation doing such work shall be required to so replace such draintile as to prevent any future settlement, and the flow line of such replaced draintile shall be the same as it was before it was taken up.
(2) Whenever in the making of any improvement, it becomes necessary to dig into, excavate or remove any portion of the parkway of any street lying between the lot lines and gutter lines thereof, the permit, plans specifications and contract therefor shall provide that the contractor, person, firm or corporation making such improvement, shall restore such parkway to the condition it was in before such digging or excavating was commenced, and shall resod the surface where sod has been taken up, or cover the surface with suitable soil and seed same with suitable grass seed, and shall continue to care for the same, until such parkway is restored to a condition as good in every way as it was in, before such digging or excavation was made.
(3) Whenever any portion of the public property is disturbed that does not abut that private property for the benefit of which the said public property was disturbed, immediate restoration of the disturbed property shall be required.
(G) Plans and specifications. Before issuing plumbing or sewer permits, the Director of Community Development may require the contractor to submit plot plans of all sewer work and isometric drawings of proposed interior plumbing.
(H) Permit requirements.
(1) Permits for installation, repair or alteration of sewer and plumbing work shall only be issued to a licensed plumbing contractor, pursuant to the provisions of the Illinois Plumbers License Law.
(2) Prior to issuing a permit, the contractor shall have on file in the Office of the Director of Community Development, a plumber’s license bond in the amount as set out in the fee schedule, on a form supplied by the city, and certificate of public liability and property damage insurance. The plumbers license bond shall indemnify and save harmless the city from all claims, losses or damages caused by negligence or inadequacy in the execution or protection of any plumbing, sewerage or drainage work that he or she may do in the city, and that he or she will comply with all ordinances, requirements and regulations of the city pertaining to the business of plumbing, sewerage or drainage. All such bonds shall be renewed each year. The public liability insurance shall be in the amount of not less than $500,000 for injuries, including accidental death to any one person, and subject to the same limit for each person in an amount not less than $1,000,000 on account of any single accident; and property damage insurance in an amount of not less than $500,000 on account of any single accident; all of which insurance coverage shall extend to the city to indemnify, save harmless and defend the city, its officers, designees and employees from any loss or damage arising from any incident or accident by the permittee, his or her designees, employees or subcontractors.
(I) Standards required. All plumbing, drainage and sewer work shall conform to the standards hereinafter set forth in this subchapter; and it shall be unlawful to erect, construct, remodel or repair any such plumbing, drainage or sewer except in conformity with such standards.
(J) Plumbers license. Plumbing work shall be accomplished by licensed plumbers only. A current state or Chicago journeyman plumber’s license shall, upon request, be displayed to the Inspector prior to his or her approval of any plumbing work.
(Prior Code, § 9-185) (Ord. 94-11B, passed 4-21-1994) Penalty, see § 150.999