No permit shall be issued by the Building Commissioner or other person designated by the Director of Public Service and Properties for doing or performing any of the acts or work referred to in Section 701.02 unless and until the applicant therefor shall have complied with the following requirements:
(a) Application. File an appropriate application with the Building Commissioner or other person designated by the Director of Public Service and Properties for permission to do the work or perform the acts referred to in Section 701.02, which in addition to such other information as the Building Commissioner requests shall contain:
(1) The area where the work or acts are to be performed;
(2) The name and address of the owner;
(3) The name of person who will be doing the work or performing the acts.
(b) Insurance Policy. Before any permit is issued, the applicant shall also deposit with the Municipality an insurance policy, issued by a company authorized to write insurance in the State of Ohio, designating the Municipality as the insured therein, by the terms of which the Municipality is saved harmless from any and all claims for bodily injury within the limits of ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00) for each person and twenty thousand dollars ($20,000.00) for each accident and for property damage claims in the amount of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000.00) for each accident arising or growing out of the street opening or removal of the surface of any sidewalk or opening in any sidewalk or the prosecution of the work for which the permit is obtained or in any manner arising or growing out of the work necessary or incident to the issuance of the permit or that may be occasioned by reason of any opening or anything else done pursuant to the permit. The insurance policy shall be in force when the acts or work is commenced and shall remain continuously in force while the work or acts are being done and for a period of eight months thereafter.
(c) Permit fee.
(1) Pay a permit fee of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for any one of the various acts or work projects, except the construction of sidewalks, for which permission of the Building Commissioner is being requested.
(2) For the construction of sidewalks in the public right of way, a permit fee shall be paid on the basis of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) minimum fee per lot on frontage not exceeding eighty feet plus an additional fifteen cents (15¢) per lineal foot in excess of eighty foot frontage.
(d) Deposits. Make the following deposits in connection with the various types of works or acts for which a permit application has been filed:
(1) One hundred dollars ($100.00) with each application for permission to open any dedicated but unpaved street in the Municipality.
(2) Two hundred twenty-five dollars ($225.00) with each application for permission to open any dedicated and paved street if the opening is to be made in the paved portion thereof.
(3) These deposits shall be held by the Municipality to cover the cost and supervision of backfilling, repairing, restoring, and relaying the pavement or hard surface or the sidewalk, as the case may be, together with the cost of any new material, as the same shall be estimated by the Building Commissioner or other person designated by the Director of Public Service and Properties to make the estimate.
(Ord. 12-1977. Passed 5-9-77.)