No person shall engage in the practice of excavation for compensation unless licensed as an excavator in the city. An excavator’s license will be issued by the City Clerk upon submission of a written application on forms obtained from the Clerk and upon fulfilling the fee, bonding and insurance requirements as specified herein. The licensing period shall be from February 1 to January 31.
(A) Fee. The license fee for an excavator’s license for the licensing period, or any part thereof, shall be $50.
(B) Surety bond. A surety bond in the amount of $10,000 must be filed in favor of the city. Such bond must run throughout the licensing period and shall be conditioned upon the faithful performance of all duties required by ordinance, rules or regulations of the city.
(C) Insurance; assumption of liability. Any person licensed as an excavator must file proof of liability insurance in the amount of at least $300,000 per person, $500,000 per occurrence and $300,000 for property damage with the City Clerk and must agree, in writing, on forms provided by the Clerk, to hold the city harmless from any and all damages claimed by reason of negligence, incompetence or omission on the part of such person in the performance of their work, the same to include, but not be limited to, careless guarding of excavations made by them or failure to restore all public properties to as good a condition as they existed before such work was done, or for any damages growing out of the negligence or carelessness of any such licensed person.
(Prior Code, § 5-1B-4) (Ord. 183, passed 10-6-1975; Ord. 434, passed 2-1-1993; Ord. 532, passed 7-5-2000; Ord. 792, passed 10-19-2015; Ord. 871, passed 12-20-2021) Penalty, see § 95.999