(A) Permit application. Any person, firm or corporation desiring to dig, excavate, or tunnel through or under any street, alley, pavement or other public grounds shall first make application for a permit on forms provided for that purpose by the City Clerk-Treasurer and the applicant shall, at the same time, execute a performance bond to the effect that he or she will properly dig and excavate the alley, street or thoroughfare, taking precaution by lights, barricades and in any other necessary way to protect the public from injury to person or property. An application and bond shall be filed prior to the issuance of a permit by the City Clerk-Treasurer for each separate issuance of a permit by the City Clerk-Treasurer for each separate and several acts of digging or excavating in the street, alleys, pavements or other public grounds.
(1992 Code, § 12.16.020)
(B) Fees.
(1) The City Clerk-Treasurer is hereby authorized and empowered to administer this chapter and to prepare and retain a supply of proper forms to carry out this chapter, and the City Clerk-Treasurer, upon receipt by an applicant of his or her application
for a permit to excavate, dig, or tunnel, together with a duly executed bond, shall issue a permit or license upon the payment by the applicant a fee according to the following schedule of fees:
(a) Mandatory fee for repairing opening in blacktop, asphalt, or other hard surface street, not concrete surface or sub-surface is $150 plus any other costs and expenses incurred by the city or its designees.
(b) Mandatory fee for repairing opening in blacktop, asphalt or other hard surface alley is $150 plus any other costs and expenses incurred by the city or its designees.
(c) Mandatory fee for repairing opening in concrete street or street having a concrete or brick sub-surface is $150 plus any other costs and expenses incurred by the city or its designees.
(2) The procedures shall be read and signed by the applicant. The Clerk-Treasurer shall provide the proper forms and the Street Commissioner shall advise the Clerk-Treasurer of costs and expenses incurred in an orderly manner.
(3) In the rules and regulations form executed by the contractor and owner, the contractor and owner shall guarantee the work for a one-year period from the date of approval by the Street Commissioner or his or her permit shall be denied.
(4) The Street Commissioner shall be notified by the owner and contractor upon completion of the work with the form prescribed by the Clerk-Treasurer.
(5) Upon completion of the work, the Street Commissioner shall promptly inspect the work and approve the work if satisfactory. If the work is unsatisfactory, the Street Commissioner shall notify the landowner and contractor. After notice, the landowner and contractor shall have 60 days to rectify the conditions of disapproval. Otherwise, the city shall make the repairs and costs will be assessed against the contractor and the landowner.
(6) If the Street Commissioner determines a problem exists within the one-year period beginning after his or her approval, the city shall request the owner and the contractor repair the affected area. If not repaired with 60 days, the city shall make the necessary repairs and assess costs and expenses against the owner and contractor for the repair work provided by the city.
(1992 Code, § 12.16.030) (Ord. 899, passed 11-16-1948; Am. Ord. 1056, passed 2-21-1961; Am. Ord. 1972-20, passed 10-17-1972; Am. Ord. passed - - )