(a) Permit Required. Except as provided in subsection (g) hereof, no person shall dig up any street or alley of the City for any purpose unless he shall have first obtained a permit from the City Clerk to do so.
(b) Requisites for Permit. No permit required by this section shall be granted until the person applying for such permit shall satisfy the City Clerk that the digging up of the street is necessary for the health, welfare, safety and comfort of the applicant or others.
(c) Bond. No permit required by this section shall be granted until the applicant shall enter into a bond with good and sufficient security to be approved by the City Clerk in the sum of two hundred dollars ($200.00), payable to the City, conditioned that all ditches caused by such digging will be properly guarded both day and night and that such ditches will be properly refilled, and the street restored in good and safe condition without expense to the City. In case it becomes necessary for the City to place such street in good and safe condition as a result of such digging, the work shall be done by the Commissioner of Public Works at the cost of the person obtaining such permit and giving the bond, which cost shall be enforced against the bond.
(d) Erection of Barriers, Lights. Any person making any excavation in any street shall do the work in a careful, workmanlike manner, and guard all ditches by barriers, lights and otherwise as the public safety may demand, and shall complete the work with reasonable dispatch.
(e) Restoring Streets. Any person receiving a permit under this section shall restore such street in the manner required by the City Engineer.
(f) Paving Notices. Whenever Council is about to pave any street of the City, the City Clerk shall cause notice to be served upon the property owners fronting and abutting upon such street to lay or cause to be laid all necessary sewer, tile or pipe, gas or water lines. Such notice shall also be given to all gas or water line companies owning or operating gas or water lines in the City, of Council's intention to pave such street, so that such gas and water line companies may have an opportunity to extend their lines and make all necessary connections before such street is paved.
(g) Public Service Corporations. Nothing contained in this section shall prohibit any public service corporation from making necessary and urgent repairs to its lines without obtaining the permit mentioned in this section, but in all cases such public service corporation making such repairs shall be bound by subsection (e) hereof. In case of failure of any public service corporation to observe the provisions of subsection (e) hereof, such resurfacing shall be done by the Commissioner of Public Works at the cost of such public service corporation.
(1977 Code Sec. 8.15)