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The utility and/or its contractor must replace, in kind, all pavement markings damaged or removed by pave cuts and work incident thereto. All markings must be replaced within five days after permanent restoration. Should the contractor fail to replace the same, the municipality shall contract to have the necessary repairs made and bill the utility for the cost of the work plus 20 percent penalty.
(Ord. 8/24/1988, § 142; as amended by Ord. 2015-2, 5/14/2015, § 142)
Electronic traffic control devices and ancillary equipment damaged or removed because of pavement excavations or work incident thereto must be replaced by the utility or its contractor, in kind, in whole or in part, as required by the Township Engineer or his or her agent. The Towhship shall contract to have the necessary repairs made and bill the utility.
(Ord. 8/24/1988, § 143)
C. Preparation of Streets for Pavings, Repair or Reconstruction
The Township Board of Commissioners provides by this Part 1C, for the laying, renewing and repairing of all gas, water, steam or other pipes, or conduits, in any street, before the paving, repaving or repairing of the same, and for making the necessary house connections with said pipes, and also for the necessary house connections and branches with and leading into main or lateral sewers; provided, that in no case, except as a sanitary measure, of which the Board of Commissioners shall be the judge, shall the Board of Commissioners require such house connections to be extended further from such sewers, or from such gas, water, steam or other pipes, or conduits, than to the inner line of the curbstone of such street. The Board of Commissioners may, after notice to all companies, corporations, persons and owners affected, and in default of compliance therewith, cause said pipes to be laid, renewed or repaired, and said connections made, and collect the cost of paving, and repairing all pipes and pipe from the companies, corporations or persons owning or operating the said gas, water, steam and other pipes or conduits, with interest and the cost of the sewer connections shall be a first lien against the land for whose benefit such connections are made. A separate lien may be filed therefor, or such sewer connection cost may be included in any lien filed for the cost of such street improvement, and the lien and the other proceedings thereon shall be as in the case of other municipal liens. Municipal Claims and Liens Act, 53 P.S. §§ 7101 et seq.
(Ord. 8/24/1988)
The following depths for pipes and conduits are assigned to the utilities operating under this Part:
A. Gas lines shall be a minimum of 30 inches below subgrade.
B. Water lines shall be a minimum of 36 inches below subgrade, a water main shall be a minimum of five feet below subgrade.
C. Electric lines and conduits shall be a minimum of 24 inches below subgrade.
D. Steam lines shall be a minimum of 30 inches below subgrade.
E. Telecommunication lines and conduits shall be a minimum of 36 inches below subgrade.
(Ord. 8/24/1988, § 302)
Aerial installations of electric power transmissions and telecommunications lines suspended from supporting poles having their base and/or support wires within the public right-of-way and interfering with a roadway construction reconstruction or repair project shall be relocated upon written order from the Township Engineer to a point specified therein. The Township Engineer may require the utility to place its aerial facilities underground where it is deemed necessary or desirable. Hereafter, aerial installations shall be placed subject to approval by the Township Engineer. The Township Engineer shall assign horizontal corridors on a case by case basis for all new construction. All gate box shut-off valves and other regulating devices underground for individual customers for gas, water, steam, electric and telecommunications lines shall be located inside the inner line of the curbstone or, in the case where no curb exists, to a point specified by the Township Engineer.
(Ord. 8/24/1988, § 303)
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