Immediately upon completion of the work necessitating the excavation or obstruction permitted by any permit issued pursuant to this Chapter, the permittee shall promptly and in a workmanlike manner refill the excavation or remove time obstruction in a manner which the Commissioner determines is most effective to accomplish thorough consolidation and enable the highway to be restored to a condition equivalent to that in which it was prior to the excavation or obstruction.
After refilling has been completed, the top surface of excavations made in improved streets shall be covered with not less than one inch nor more that two inches of pre-mixed bituminous material satisfactory to the Commissioner and shall conform closely enough to the level of the adjoining surface and shall be compacted so that it is hard enough and smooth enough to be safe for pedestrian travel over it as well as for vehicular traffic to pass safely over it at a legal rate of speed. The permittee shall maintain the surface of the refill safe for pedestrian and vehicular traffic until the excavation has been resurfaced in accordance with § 51.0208.
(a) Failure to Refill Excavation. If any permittee fails or refuses to refill any excavation which he or she has made, or remove any obstruction which he or she has placed in any highway, the Commissioner may so do and charge the cost thereof to the permittee.
(b) Notice of Refilling Excavation. Upon completion of the refilling of the excavation for which a permit has been issued, the permittee shall notify the Commissioner in writing on a form prescribed by the Commissioner.
(Ord. 815, passed - -1957; Am. Ord. 922, passed - -1960)