It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation, or political subdivision, whether an abutting owner or tenant or otherwise, to do or permit to be done by his or its agents, servants, or employees, without first having obtained from the director of public service and safety or his duly authorized representative, a permit to do any of the following acts:
(A) Make any excavations in any street, sidewalk space, alley, land, or other public way or place;
(B) Remove, break, or make holes in any pavement of the streets, sidewalks, sidewalk spaces, or other public way or places, or to cut any curb;
(C) Construct, build, erect, or place any article or structure in or upon, over, or under a street, sidewalk, alley, lane, sidewalk space, public way, or place;
(D) Make any improvement or change in the surface of any street, alley, lane, sidewalk, or sidewalk space, or any other public way or place by grading, graveling, paving, or laying sidewalks or curbing, or place or paint any sign or advertising matter on the surface of any such place;
(E) Construct, build, or maintain any driveway over or through any gutter, curb, or sidewalk.
('59 Code, § 901.01) Penalty, see § 92.99