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B. Permits
1. Notification by telephone, to the Township Zoning Officer must be made a minimum of 15 minutes in advance of excavation, but not more than 24 hours in advance of excavation. An entry in the Township pave cut log (the record of notification of the Township) together with a completed application for pave cut permit shall constitute a permit. The completion of an application form alone shall not constitute a permit.
2. An application form, properly completed and including a location sketch shall be collected from the utility on a monthly basis by the Township. Permit fees shall be billed on a monthly basis by the Township of Plains and shall be payable to the Township. Application forms shall be provided by the Plains Township Zoning Officer.
(Ord. 8/24/1988, § 201)
1. In the case where an emergency repair, as herein before defined, is found, the utility shall first notify the Township Zoning Officer, and inform him or her that an emergency exists.
2. When the emergency occurs after the normal Township working hours, on weekends and holidays, the Township Police Dispatcher must be notified. Emergency pave cuts shall be recorded in the Township pave cut log at the start of the next business day following the emergency.
(Ord. 8/24/1988, § 202)
Pave cuts necessitated by the Township sponsored public improvements will be on a nonfee basis but limited to a specific contract area. Work done outside a project area will be handled under § 21-111, and will require a permit fee. A list of noting exact locations and dimensions of all such cuts shall be submitted to the Department of Public Works at the completion of work. Notification will be required for any pave cuts made in state highways located within the Township for which a highway occupancy permit has been issued.
(Ord. 8/24/1988, § 118)
1. The applicant shall protect, defend, indemnify and save harmless the municipality, its officers and/or agents thereof, from all claims, suits, actions and proceedings of every nature and description which may be brought against the municipality, its officers or agents thereof, for or on account of any injuries or damages to persons or public or private property, because of any materials or appliances used in the work, or by or on account of improper materials or workmanship, or for or on account of any accident or any other act, negligence or omissions of said applicant, or his or her agents, servants or employees, and the municipality shall not, in any way, be liable therefor during the period of the work progress and for the period following the completion of the work until the street is resurfaced or reconstructed by the municipality.
2. Minimum insurance shall be:
A. Five hundred thousand dollars liability per individual with a limit of $1,000,000 for each occurrence for bodily injury.
B. Five hundred thousand dollars liability for property damage.
C. Evidence of insurance in the form of a certificate or letter executed by a duly authorized representative of the applicant’s insurance carrier shall be submitted to the Engineer each January 15. Said evidence of insurance must include the provision that the Township shall be given proper advance notice of at least 30 days of cancellation or any material alteration in the applicant’s policy.
(Ord. 8/24/1988, § 120; as amended by Ord. 2015-2, 5/14/2015, § 120)
During the progress of work the applicant shall provide and maintain such barricades, warning signs and flagpersons as may be deemed necessary by the Township to prevent accidents to the public and/or adjoining tenants. Minimum precautions must include, but should not be limited to, advance warning signs on all approaches to the work, safe crossing for pedestrians each 300 feet, barricades with flashers on each exposed side at 50-foot intervals. All precautions shall be in accordance with the “Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices” as adopted by USTA 1972 and current update.
(Ord. 8/24/1988, § 121)
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