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All interferences, including trees, poles, street-lighting systems, parking meters, sewers, storm drain appurtenances and culverts located within the construction area that will interfere with the use of the proposed facility shall be moved and relocated at the expense of the permittee. The permittee shall obtain consent of the owner of the interference for the removal or relocation thereof and shall furnish to the city engineer satisfactory evidence that all necessary arrangements for removal or relocation of such interference prior to the issuance of the permit.
(Prior code § 12.04.260 (Ord. 487 § 25, 1960))
A. Every person making any excavation in a public street shall maintain safe crossings for vehicles and pedestrian traffic at all street intersections and safe crossings for pedestrians at intervals not to exceed six hundred feet. If any such excavation is made across a public street, at least one safe crossing shall be maintained at all times for vehicles and pedestrians. Such person shall also provide free access to all water gates. All materials excavated shall be laid compactly along the side of the trench and kept trimmed so as to cause as little inconvenience as possible to public travel. If the street is not wide enough to hold the excavated materials without using part of the adjacent sidewalk, such person shall erect and maintain a tight board fence upon and along such sidewalk and keep a passageway at least three feet in width open and along such sidewalk.
B. The excavation work shall be performed in such a manner so as not to interfere with access to fire stations and fire hydrants. Materials or obstructions shall not be placed within fifteen feet of fire hydrants. Passageways leading to fire escapes or firefighting equipment shall be kept free from piles of materials or other obstructions.
(Prior code § 12.04.160 (Ord. 487 § 14, 1960))
Upon completion of any work performed pursuant to any permit issued under the provisions of this chapter, the city engineer shall make a final inspection thereof and, if the same is found to be in accordance with the specifications therefor and in compliance with the provisions of this chapter, the city engineer may be requested to issue a final certificate of acceptance and, if such a request is made, the city engineer shall issue such a certificate in duplicate and the original thereof shall be delivered to the permittee.
(Prior code § 12.04.270 (Ord. 487 § 26, 1960))
Every person who owns, controls, or who installs or causes to be installed any pipe, tunnel, or other subsurface facility in a public street or public place, except a service pipe or pipes, shall file in the office of the city engineer, within sixty days after completion of the installation thereof, a corrected map or set of maps or corrected atlas sheets, each drawn to a scale of not more than two hundred feet to the inch, which shall describe and show the location of all parts of the facility; provided, however, that if the map filed with the city engineer at the time the permit is issued is correct in every detail, such person may make a notation to that effect on the map and such map shall constitute a compliance with this section.
(Prior code § 12.04.170 (Ord. 487 § 15, 1960))
Whenever any pipe, conduit, duct, tunnel, or other subsurface installation, except a service pipe or pipes, located under the surface of any public street or other public place, or the use thereof is abandoned or is removed, the person owning, using, controlling, or having any interest therein shall, within sixty days after such abandonment, file in the office of the city engineer a map giving in detail the location of such pipe, conduit, duct, tunnel, or other installation so abandoned; provided, however, that if an accurate map is already on file, the abandonment or removal thereof may be indicated thereon by an appropriate endorsement in lieu of filing a new map.
(Prior code § 12.04.180 (Ord. 487 § 16, 1960))
Should a leak occur in any pipeline laid in or near a public street, alley, or way, an excavation may be made for the purpose of repairing the pipeline without first obtaining an excavation permit from the city engineer. However, the person making the excavation shall make application for such a permit as soon as is practicable thereafter and in any event before any backfilling is done.
(Ord. 68-2-617 § 1: prior code § 12.04.190 (Ord. 487 § 17, 1960))
A. Whenever the city engineer finds that any street surface improvement or excavation is being constructed contrary to or in violation of any provision of this chapter, or if it comes to the attention of the city engineer that any work authorized by a permit issued pursuant to this chapter is dangerous, unsafe, or a menace to life, health or property, the city engineer shall order the work to be immediately stopped or shall order the alteration of any dangerous or unsafe condition.
B. Any such order shall be in writing and shall specify the manner in which the work is dangerous, unsafe, or a menace to life, health or property.
C. After receipt of such order, the permittee shall not continue with any street surface improvement or excavation until such work has been made to comply with the provisions of this chapter and the instructions given by the city engineer.
(Prior code § 12.04.280 (Ord. 487 § 27, 1960))
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