(a) Guarantee of Completion Required. A completion guarantee in the form of a bond, cash deposit, certified check or other negotiable securities acceptable to the Municipality, shall be filed. The guarantee shall cover all streets, sanitary sewers, stormwater management facilities, water systems, fire hydrants, sidewalks and other required improvements; it shall be in the amount and form prescribed by the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code (Section 509).
(b) Release of Completion Guarantee. The completion guarantee shall be returned or released upon written certification by the City Engineer or a designated agent that improvements and facilities have been installed and completed in accordance with the approved plan and specifications. The procedures for requesting and obtaining a release of the completion guarantee shall be in a manner prescribed by the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code (Section 510).
(c) Default of Completion Guarantee. If improvements are not installed in accordance with the approved final plan, the governing body may enforce any corporate bond or other security by appropriate legal and equitable remedies. If proceeds of such bond or other security are insufficient to pay the cost of installing or making repairs or corrections to all improvements covered by said security, the governing body may at its option install part of such improvements in all or part of the development and may institute appropriate legal or equitable action to recover the monies necessary to complete the remainder of the improvements. All proceeds, whether resulting from the security or from any legal or equitable action brought against the developer, or both, shall be used solely for the installation of the improvements covered by such security and not for any other Municipal purpose.
(d) Dedication of Public Improvements.
(1) When streets, sanitary sewers, stormwater management facilities, water lines or other required improvements in the development have been completed in accordance with the final approved plan, such improvements shall be deemed private until such time as they have been offered for dedication to the Municipality and accepted by separate ordinance or resolution or until they have been condemned for use as a public facility.
(2) Prior to acceptance of any improvements or facilities, the City Engineer shall inspect them to ensure that they are constructed in accordance with the approved plan and are functioning properly. In case of any stormwater control facility, it must be free of sediment and debris.
(3) The owner shall submit as-built plans for all facilities proposed for dedication.
(e) Maintenance Guarantee. Prior to acceptance of any improvements or facilities, the applicant shall provide a financial security to secure the structural integrity and functioning of the improvements. The security shall be in the form of a bond, cash, certified check or other negotiable security acceptable to the Municipality, shall be for a term of eighteen months, and shall be in an amount equal to fifteen percent of the actual cost of the improvements and facilities so dedicated.
(Ord. 14-91. Passed 8-28-91.)