Every person who excavates in any street without a permit or who fails to fill and cover an excavation within the time permitted by the department shall be guilty of committing a public nuisance and the department may summarily abate such nuisance and the cost of such abatement shall be the personal obligation of every person creating, causing, committing or maintaining such nuisance.
(‘81 Code, § 12.08.090) (Am. Ord. 1322, passed 11-2-22)