The contractor shall furnish and install all temporary sheeting, shoring, timbering and bracing required to maintain the excavation in a condition to permit the safe and efficient installation of all items of contract work. The contractor shall, further, at his or her own expense, shore up or otherwise protect all fences, buildings, walls, walks, curbs or other property adjacent to any excavation which might be disturbed during the progress of the work. The contractor shall be held liable for any damage which may result to neighboring property from excavation or construction work.
Sheeting, shoring, timbering and bracing for open trenches and excavations shall be ordered left in place by the Village when, in its opinion, such is necessary for the protection of the work, the public or the adjacent property. The contractor shall further do all draining, ditching, diking, pumping, bailing and well pointing required to maintain a dry excavation.
(Ord. 352. Passed 10-22-62.)