(a) Common Walls. No person after the completion of the demolition, shall permit a common or joint wall exposed as a result of the demolition of the adjacent building to become unsafe or unsightly through lack of repair. In the case of a common or joint wall, it shall be the responsibility of the person using such wall as a means of support for his building structure to repoint, reconstruct or reface the newly exposed surface to prevent such common or joint wall from becoming unsafe or unsightly.
(b) It shall be the responsibility of the owner of a building having a separate wall from the adjacent building, which separate wall is exposed as a result of the demolition of the adjacent building, to maintain the exposed surface of his wall by repointing, reconstructing or refacing the newer exposed surface to keep it from becoming unsafe or unsightly.
(c) Any person engaged in such work shall exercise every precaution to prevent injury to persons or property. He shall erect such barricades, signs and lights as he believes to be suitable and adequate. He shall adopt and enforce such rules and regulations as may be necessary in the work and its supervision. He shall be responsible for the maintenance of discipline throughout the conduct of the work. The contractor or owner will be required to use, where possible, water or chemicals for the control of dust in the demolition of buildings or structures. City water used will be metered, and the contractor or owner will be responsible for payment to the Utilities Department for the water used.
(d) Any person engaged in the demolition of a building which would leave an open cellar, pit, depression, hole, gully or similar depression which may accumulate and retain surface water and which may become a public hazard or nuisance, shall promptly fill in such depression or, in the case where such depression is to be used in the immediate future for new construction, such depression shall be protected by the erection of a solid fence not less than eight feet high around the depressed area.
(e) No person shall permit debris to remain upon the property after the demolition has been completed. It shall be the responsibility of the owner to see that all debris is removed.
(f) Whenever the surface of a lot or plot of ground is excavated, filled or graded after the completion of the demolition, positive drainage shall be provided so that a nuisance will not be created. Catch basins or properly connected underdrains shall be installed or other approved provisions made where water may pocket, to preclude the accumulation of surface water. Surface water shall not be drained into adjacent properties not in the same ownership without written permission from the owner of the adjacent property. Existing natural ground drainage of the ground area surrounding the lot or plot excavated or graded shall not be impeded.
(g) The contract shall indicate the time of the work. Failure to complete the project within the time stated shall be cause for the City to contact the surety providing the performance bond and to require such surety to perform the work.
(Ord. 610801-31. Passed 8-15-61; Ord. 730619-61. Passed 7-3-73.)