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(A) For the purpose of this section, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
APPROVED MATERIAL. Clean sand or pea gravel to contain no more than 10% dirt by volume.
PROPER AUTHORITIES. The Board of Public Works and Safety.
(B) All cuts in paved streets must be filled with approved fill as before stated and topped out with four inches of concrete and two inches of hot-mix blacktop or six inches of concrete in cement streets.
(Prior Code, § 23-61) (Ord. passed 6-10-1957; Ord. 80-14, passed 8-25-1980)
STREET GRADES
The city shall designate some suitable and permanent point upon the courthouse in the city to calculate and ascertain the exact elevation and distance of the point above the level of the sea and permanently mark on that point by marks which cannot be erased or destroyed its distance and elevation above the level of the sea and record the location and description of the point and its distance and elevation above the level of the sea and the markings thereon in the proper records in the office of the Street Commissioner, which point, when calculated, ascertained and properly marked and recorded, shall be taken as a benchmark for the grades of all streets and alleys within the corporate limits of the city.
(Prior Code, § 23-73)
When the grade of any street or alley within the city is hereafter established by the Common Council, the benchmark described in § 101.070 shall be the base from which the grade shall be calculated and described.
(Prior Code, § 23-74)
When the grade of any street within the city shall be duly and legally established by the Common Council of the city, the grade thereof shall be marked as follows. Wherever the street intersects with any other street in the city, two lines shall be drawn, one line being drawn parallel with the eight feet south from the north line of the intersection, and one line being drawn parallel with and eight feet east of the west line of the intersection, and at the point of the intersection of the two lines, a concrete, stone or iron monument shall be placed and the top of the monument shall be set at the true grade of the street at the intersection of the centerlines of the intersecting streets.
(Prior Code, § 23-75)
Benchmarkers shall be established at convenient points and wherever possible. The elevation of the tops of the benchmarkers from the monuments provided for in § 101.072 and the distance and location therefrom shall be ascertained and the distances, elevations and locations shall be permanently marked on the benchmarks by marks which cannot be erased or destroyed.
(Prior Code, § 23-76)
An accurate description of the location of the monuments provided for in § 101.072 and the markings thereon, if any; an accurate description of the benchmarks and their locations and elevations from the monuments and the markings thereon; and the elevation of the benchmark provided for in § 101.070, from the monuments, shall all be recorded in the proper records of the office of the Street Commissioner. A book of grades, markings and profiles of the different streets shall also be properly kept by the Commissioner.
(Prior Code, § 23-77)
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