Before any person other than a duly authorized Village officer or employee, shall make any opening or tunneling in any street, alley, or other public grounds in the Village or remove the surface of any sidewalk or any part thereof, such person shall file with the Mayor a written or printed application therefor, setting forth and accurately indicating therein the location, date, kind and extent of the proposed opening or removal of sidewalk, the number, purpose and size of the openings or excavations which are desired or necessary.
If any openings or excavations be for a purpose other than pursuant to a contract with the Village, the applicant shall pay a fee as set forth in Section 905.03 and shall deposit with the Village a bond sufficient to cover the cost of and supervision of backfilling, repairing, restoring and relaying the pavement or hard surface or the sidewalk, as the case may be, together with the cost of any new material, as the same shall be estimated by the Mayor but in no event less than one thousand dollars ($1,000).
(Ord. 66-1. Passed 2-2-66.)