(a) Preconstruction Meeting and Work Schedules. Prior to any construction of any project involving the City Engineer a preconstruction meeting will be held between the subdivider and the City Engineer. At this time the project will be discussed in regard to procedure, materials and inspection.
(b) Construction Improvements Inspection.
(1) Responsible officials. The City Engineer or his representative shall be responsible for the inspection of all improvements.
(2) Authority and duties. The City Engineer or representative shall be authorized to inspect the construction of all improvements and all materials furnished. Such inspection may extend to all or any part of the imporvements and to the preparation, fabrication or manufacture of materials to be used. The City Engineer shall designate the Inspector and the Inspector shall not be authorized to revoke, alter or waive any requirements of the improvement specifications or plans. He shall be authorized to call the attention of the contractor to any failures of the work or materials to conform to the improvement specifications and contract. He shall have the authority to reject materials which do not meet specification requirements or suspend the portion of the work involved.
Periodic inspection during the installation of improvements shall be made by the City Engineer to insure conformity with the approved plans and specifications as provided in the subdivider's construction agreement.
(3) Final inspection. Upon completion of all improvements, the subdivider shall request in writing a final inspection by the City Engineer as required under Ohio R.C. 711.091. The City Engineer shall make a final inspection of all street improvements, storm and sanitary sewer and water improvements.
(c) Construction Improvement Responsibilities.
(1) Cooperation of subdivider and/or contractor. The subdivider shall have available on the project, at all times, two copies of all approved improvement plans and specifications. He shall cooperate with the City Engineer and with other contractors in every way possible. The subdivider shall at all times have a competent superintendent acting as his agent on the project. The superintendent shall be capable of reading and thoroughly understanding the improvement plans and specifications and he shall receive instructions from the Inspector. The City Engineer's orders shall be excuted without delay.
(2) Repair of damaged improvements. Any damage done to the improvements by construction traffic or by any other means shall be repaired or the damaged materials replaced to the satisfaction of the City Engineer before the next item of construction is begun.
(3) Maintenance of improvements. The subdivider shall be responsible for the maintenance of the improvements installed and shall be responsible for providing the services necessary to guarantee access to all occupied lots, including plowing snow, until final acceptance by the City. The subdivider shall be given notice by the City Engineer of the need for such maintenance or service. If the subdivider fails to perform such necessary maintenance or service within thirty days from the date the notice was issued by the City Engineer, the City may perform such service and bill the subdivider for such service. Payment shall be guaranteed by the performance bond.
(d) Assurance of Completion of Improvements Guarantee.
(1) Assurance of completion of improvements. No lot, proposed lot, or parcel of land which is subject to these Regulations shall be sold or leased, until the improvements required by those regulations have been completed, or assurance of their completion has been approved. The assurance of completion of improvements shall be satisfied by the furnishing of a performance bond, or surety bond as approved by the Law Director.
When the performance bond and assurance of completion of improvements has been satisfied, the City, if requested by the subdivider, will provide a written document accepting the improvements for ownership and for future maintenance.
(Ord. 05-58. Passed 9-15-05.)
(2) Reduction of bond. The developer shall give written notice to the City Engineer when improvements covered by bond have been completed; that the City Engineer shall then make any and all inspections essential to the determination that such improvements conform to all standards of this ordinance; and that the City Engineer within fourteen days of receiving the heretofore described written notice, convey a written report to Council, and the developer, stating his approval or disapproval, as the case may be. In the event the City Engineer disapproves, he shall state his reasons for doing so in a written report to both parties.
Upon approval of the inprovements, the performance bond or surety bond shall be replaced by a maintenance bond equal to ten percent (10%) of the performance bond for a duration of one year. This will be released after final acceptance inspection.
(3) The subdivider shall furnish evidence of general public liability, and property damage insurance coverage in the amounts of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) for death of or injury to any one person, one million dollars ($1,000,000) for death of or injury to two or more persons in any one accident and five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) for property damage in any one accident in an insurance company authorized to do business in the State. Such insurance shall indemnify and save harmless the City from any and all liability arising by reason of the conditions of the streets of such subdivision or out of the construction or installation of all such improvements. A copy of the insurance policy shall remain at all times with the City.
(Ord. 77-19. Passed 6-2-77.)