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Any person who desires to have the Department of Public Works perform any special service or any grading, construct any pavement, or other surfacing, or curb, sidewalk, gutter or any other public works in any street, alley or other public way either by the letting of a contract therefor or by using labor employed by the City and materials purchased by the City, and who desires to pay to the City the cost or any portion of the cost of such work, may apply to the Board of Public Works therefor. The Board of Public Works is hereby empowered, at its discretion, to arrange for the performance of said work and to accept deposits of such amounts as shall be determined by the Board to be necessary to pay the costs of the said work or portion thereof, and the amount of incidental expenses incurred by the City, or portion thereof, in connection with the performance of said work. Said amounts shall be deposited with the City Treasurer to the credit of appropriate funds under the jurisdiction of the Board, for which a proper receipt shall be rendered to the depositor.
Upon the completion of the work, any unused portion of the money deposited shall be refunded to the depositor.
(Amended by Ord. No. 187,722, Eff. 1/19/23.)
(a) Revocable Permits. Where the City Engineer finds that a building, structure, or improvement maintained or proposed to be constructed within a public street will not interfere with the maintenance or use of the street, and is not intended for use by the public, the Bureau of Engineering (Bureau) may issue one or more permits for the maintenance or proposed construction of such building, structure, or improvement, or for an excavation in connection with such maintenance or construction. The Bureau shall charge and collect a fee to conduct an investigation to determine whether to issue a permit pursuant to the provisions of this section, and shall charge a fee of $556 if no field investigation is required (Tier 1 fee), and shall charge a fee of $1,854 if a field investigation is required (Tier 2 fee).
For Revocable Permit applications submitted under this subsection where the Bureau anticipates the staff time to process the permit application is three hours or less and for which no field investigation is required, the Bureau shall charge only the hourly Special Engineering Fee at the rate set forth in Section 61.14 of this Code in lieu of the Tier 1 fee. In such case, an applicant for a Revocable Permit must pay, before the Bureau provides any services, a deposit corresponding to the time the Bureau estimates will be needed to process the Revocable Permit application. If, before completion of the processing of the Revocable Permit application, the Bureau determines that additional time is needed to process the application, the Bureau may require the applicant to pay an additional deposit corresponding to the time the Bureau estimates will be needed to complete the processing of the application, up to a maximum of three hours total.
If an applicant paid the Special Engineering Fee and the Bureau determines that more than three hours of Bureau staff time is necessary to process and determine whether to issue the Revocable Permit, the Tier 1 fee shall apply, and the Bureau shall charge and collect from the applicant the Tier 1 fee, including a credit for any Special Engineering Fees already paid.
If an applicant paid a Tier 1 fee and the Bureau of Engineering determines that it will be required to conduct a field investigation, the Bureau shall charge and collect from the applicant a fee of $1,298, in addition to the $556 already paid. If the Bureau is required to prepare a report of its investigation for consideration by the Board, the applicant shall not owe a Tier 1 or Tier 2 fee, and instead the Bureau shall charge and collect its actual costs (Tier 3 fee) and a deposit of such costs as determined and collected pursuant to the provisions of Section 61.15 of this Code.
(b) Revocable Permits – Roadway Dining Areas. In addition to the fees required in Subsection (a), an application for a Revocable Permit for the purpose of establishing a Roadway Dining Area shall be subject to the following Department of Transportation fees.
(1) Application Review Fee – Existing Roadway Dining Area. An applicant requesting a Revocable Permit for a Roadway Dining Area who already received a temporary use authorization for Roadway dining under the L.A. Al Fresco Program during the 2020-2022 COVID-19 pandemic and “Safer at Home” declarations shall be charged a Department of Transportation Application Review Fee of $1,200.
(2) Application Review Fee – New Roadway Dining Area. An applicant requesting a Revocable Permit for a Roadway Dining Area who did not receive a temporary use authorization for Roadway dining under the L.A. Al Fresco Program during the 2020-2022 COVID-19 pandemic and “Safer at Home” declarations shall be charged a Department of Transportation Application Review Fee of $1,500.
No person owning or operating a steam, electric, interurban or street railroad shall pave that portion of any street used by the tracks thereof which such person is required by law to pave and keep in repair, or construct the tracks or the roadbed of such tracks in any other manner than as prescribed in Section 62.120 to 62.128 inclusive.
Whenever the Council shall order any street, upon or across which there are any steam, electric, interurban or street railroad tracks, to be paved with asphalt, vitrified brick, stone block or other permanent pavement, any person having such tracks thereon, shall construct the roadbed of such tracks in the following manner:
All ties upon which rails are laid shall be firmly embedded in hydraulic cement concrete, or if the said person shall so elect, in ballast composed of broken stone or screened gravel, grouted as hereinafter provided. In case hydraulic cement concrete is used, it shall be composed, by volume, of not less than one (1) part Portland cement to three (3) parts sand and six (6) parts of broken stone or screened gravel. The concrete shall extend at least six (6) inches below the bottom of the ties with the top of the ties, but said concrete below the bottom of the pavement base need not extend more than three (3) inches beyond the ends of the ties. In case ballast is used it shall be composed of hard durable stone or of screened gravel, free from dust and dirt, of such sizes and so graded as to permit of thorough grouting. The ballast shall be at least six (6) inches thick below the bottom of the ties; and the space between and around the ties shall be filled in with ballast, level with the top of the ties; but said ballast need not extend more than three (3) inches beyond the end of the ties. The entire thickness of the ballast shall be thoroughly grouted with hydraulic cement mortar composed by volume of not less than one (1) part Portland cement, to three (3) parts sand; provided, however, that in case of any street ordered to be paved with asphalt, the Board may, at its discretion, grant such person special permission to use ballast without grouting, up to the level of the bottom of the base of such asphalt pavement; except, that in case such permission is granted, hydraulic or Portland cement concrete of the character herein provided, shall be laid between the ties and beneath the rails extending not less than one (1) foot on each side of each rail and not less than four (4) inches in thickness beneath the rails.
Whenever the Council shall order the street upon or across which there are any steam, electric, interurban or street railroad tracks, to be paved or otherwise improved, any person having such tracks thereon, or across the same, shall pave or otherwise improve that portion of such street required by law to be paved and kept in repair, by any person having steam, electric, interurban or street railroad tracks thereon, in the following manner:
The portion of the street between the rails, and for two (2) feet on each side thereof and between the tracks, if there be more than one, shall be paved or otherwise improved in a similar manner in all respects; except as hereinafter provided, to the work so ordered to be performed upon the contiguous portion of the street, under the same specifications and superintendence, with the same kinds of material and to the like satisfaction and acceptance; provided, that upon all streets which may be hereafter paved with asphalt, that portion of the street for a space of not less than six and one-half (6 1/2) inches on the gauge side and not less than three and three-quarter (3 3/4) inches on the outer side of each rail of such tracks and contiguous thereto, shall be paved with stone blocks; all of said blocks to be laid evenly and uniformly on edge in cement mortar upon a concrete foundation and grouted with hydraulic or Portland cement mortar, composed by volume, of one (1) part of cement to one (1) part sand. Special types of blocks or special methods of constructing the pavement along the rails, may be used with the written consent of the Board. Upon all streets which may be hereafter improved or re-improved with asphalt or similar pavement, the specifications for which require a binder course, such binder course need not be constructed between the rails, within two (2) feet of the rails, or between the tracks, if there be more than one track.
The entire roadbed construction and paving, except as herein otherwise provided shall be in accordance with the plans and cross sections for railroad track construction, on file in the office of the City Engineer, which plans and cross sections are numbered 26.261 and 26.262 and are designated “Plans and Cross Sections for Street Railroad Track Construction in the City of Los Angeles,” and are hereby adopted as and for the plans and cross sections therefor.
No person owning or operating any steam, electric, interurban, or street railroad, shall use any rails other than grooved girder rails not less than seven (7) inches in height, of such pattern and dimensions as shall be approved by the Board, in the track or in the construction of any new track of such stream, electric, interurban or street railroad, upon, along or across any street that shall, after the effective date of Ordinance No. 29,121, approved February 3, 1914, be paved or is paved with asphalt, vitrified brick, stone blocks or other permanent pavement, except on curves where guard rails are used, or on track crossings, or switches, or upon steel bridges, or on those portions of streets where the gradient exceeds ten per centum, or on any street intersection at the lower termination of gradients exceeding ten per centum.
No person owning or operating any steam, electric, interurban, or street railroad, shall use any rails, other than grooved girder rails, not less than seven (7) inches in height of such pattern and dimensions as shall be approved by the Board of Transportation Commissioners in replacing the rails of any tracks that shall be taken up and replaced, with new or other rails in streets now paved with asphalt, vitrified brick, stone blocks or other permanent pavement. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to require the use of such grooved girder rails on curves where guard rails are used, or on track crossings, or on those portions of streets, where the gradient exceeds ten (10) per centum, or on any street intersection at the lower termination of gradients exceeding ten (10) per centum, or on streets not paved with asphalt, vitrified brick, stone blocks or other permanent pavement, or upon steel bridges. Nothing herein contained shall be construed so as to prevent the use of any rails laid in such paved streets at the time Ordinance No. 29,121, approved February 3, 1914, became effective, until such rails shall be replaced or shall be required to be replaced by new or other rails as provided by Sections 62.119 to 62.128 inclusive. (Amended by Ord. No. 151,833, Eff. 2/10/79, Oper. 2/25/79.)
Rails laid and in use in such paved streets at the time Ordinance No. 29,121, approved February 3, 1914, became effective, may be replaced by rails of a type other than grooved girder rails, herein required with the written consent of the Board of Transportation Commissioners, in any case, where such replacement shall not exceed one hundred fifty (150) feet of single track. The Board of Transportation Commissioners is hereby authorized and directed upon application made to said Board of Transportation Commissioners to examine into and consider the facts and circumstances in each particular instance. Whenever, in the opinion of the Board of Transportation Commissioners, based upon traffic conditions on any street, it is unreasonable, under existing conditions to require the use of such grooved girder rails, or to require the construction work of any railroad to be done in the manner provided in Sections 62.119 to 62.121 inclusive, or whenever, in the opinion of the Board of Transportation Commissioners, based upon market conditions, it is impossible or impracticable to obtain such grooved girder rails, the Board of Transportation Commissioners is hereby authorized and empowered to permit, by order or resolution, the use upon certain designated streets, of rails other than grooved girder rails, of such pattern and dimensions as the Board of Transportation Commissioners may prescribe, and authorize the construction of the roadbed, and the laying of ties, to be done in such manner as the Board of Transportation Commissioners may determine and specify; and the Board of Public Works is hereby authorized and empowered in such instances, by order or resolution, to permit the paving adjacent to the tracks and other construction work to be done in such manner as the Board of Public Works may determine and specify. (Amended by Ord. No. 151,833, Eff. 2/10/79, Oper. 2/25/79.)
The provisions of Sections 62.122 and 62.123 shall not be deemed to require the use of grooved girder rails of the type described therein in the construction, operation or maintenance of electric street railroad tracks, upon the streets hereinafter named, or to require the removal of rails, other than grooved girder rails, laid prior to the adoption of Ordinance No. 29,121, approved February 3, 1914, in, upon or along the following named streets:
Washington Street from Western Avenue to the westerly City Limits; Vernon Avenue from Vermont Avenue to the easterly City Limits; Adams Street from Eleventh Avenue to the westerly City Limits; Hoover Street from Seventh Street to Wilshire Boulevard; Beaudry Avenue from Alpine Street to Sunset Boulevard; Commonwealth Avenue from Wilshire Boulevard to Fifth Street.
Nothing contained in this section shall be deemed to relieve any person constructing, operating or maintaining electric street railroad tracks in, upon or along any said tracks above named, in the event the rails of said tracks are hereafter removed, or said tracks, or roadbed reconstructed, from replacing the rails so removed and constructing the roadbed of such electric street railroad in accordance with the provisions of Sections 62.119 to 62.128 inclusive.
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