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For the purpose of regulating and controlling the work of making excavations within the Municipality and of protecting persons and property from injury or damage from improper and unsafe digging, shoring and underpinning, the following regulations are provided therefor. All excavations shall be maintained and all excavation work shall be done so as to guard against injury to the public and to employees and workmen.
(Ord. 1956-88. Passed 10-1-56.)
(Ord. 1956-88. Passed 10-1-56.)
(a) The person causing any excavation to be made shall prevent the movement of the earth of adjoining properties and the trees and natural objects thereon or therein, and shall be responsible for maintaining or restoring public sidewalks, curbs, pavements and the properties or public utilities which may be affected by the excavation.
(b) The maintenance or restoration of public sidewalks, curbs and pavements shall be performed in accordance with the ordinances of the Municipality pertaining thereto, and the maintenance or restoration of the property of public utilities shall be in accordance with procedure established by the owners thereof.
(Ord. 1956-88. Passed 10-1-56.)
(Ord. 1956-88. Passed 10-1-56.)
(a) Permanent excavations shall be protected by permanent means where necessary to prevent the movement of the earth of adjoining properties. Such protection shall be provided by the person causing the excavation to be made and shall be on the property and at the expense of the person causing the excavation to be made.
(b) When deemed necessary for public safety by the Commissioner of Buildings for permanent excavations not otherwise protected, such protection shall include the construction of a substantial barricade or fence not less than six feet in height enclosing the excavated area.
(Ord. 1956-88. Passed 10-1-56.)
(Ord. 1956-88. Passed 10-1-56.)
When a lot or plot is graded to a higher or lower finished grade level than the natural grade on an adjacent property, the owner of such lot or plot shall provide suitable retaining walls or other approved protection on his own property to protect the adjacent property from caving of earth and as required to maintain the existing natural grade of such adjacent property.
(Ord. 1956-88. Passed 10-1-56.)
(Ord. 1956-88. Passed 10-1-56.)
(a) Whenever the surface of a lot or plot is excavated, filled or graded, positive drainage shall be provided so that a nuisance will not be created. Catch basins or properly connected underdrains shall be installed, or other approved provisions made, where water may pocket, to preclude the accumulation of surface water. Surface water shall not be drained onto adjacent properties not in the same ownership without written permission from the owner of the adjacent property, and existing natural ground drainage of the ground area surrounding the lot or plot excavated, filled, or graded shall not be impeded.
(b) No condition shall be created, nor any existing condition maintained, whereby there will be upon any lot or plot excavations, depressions, pits, holes, gullies or similar depressions which may accumulate and retain surface water and which may become a public hazard or nuisance. Any such condition shall be promptly abated and protected by filling or by providing positive drainage and, where necessary, by the erection of a barricade or fence.
(Ord. 1956-88. Passed 10-1-56.)
(Ord. 1956-88. Passed 10-1-56.)
When the safety of adjoining buildings or other structures may be affected by a proposed excavation, the owners of such adjoining buildings or other structures shall be notified not less than ten days before such excavating is commenced by the person proposing to do such excavating. Such notice shall be in writing and shall state the depth and location of the proposed excavation.
(Ord. 1956-88. Passed 10-1-56.)
(Ord. 1956-88. Passed 10-1-56.)
When any proposed excavation may, because of location, site conditions or method of excavation, affect the existing condition of adjoining buildings or other structures, the owners of such adjoining buildings or structures shall grant the person proposing to do such excavating, permission to enter their properties for the purpose of physical examination of their properties prior to the commencement of excavating, and at reasonable periods thereafter during the progress of the excavating work.
(Ord. 1956-88. Passed 10-1-56.)
(Ord. 1956-88. Passed 10-1-56.)
(a) Excavations Not More Than Nine Feet Below Grade Level. When an excavation extends nine feet or less below the grade level nearest the point of excavation under consideration, the owner of any existing building or other structure, the safety of which may be affected by the excavation, shall be granted permission to enter the premises where the excavation is to be made and, at his own expense, shall maintain, support and protect his building or other structure. "Grade level" as used herein, is the same as defined in the Zoning Ordinance.
(b) Excavations More Than Nine Feet Below Grade Level. When an excavation extends more than nine feet below the grade level nearest the point of excavation under consideration, the one causing the excavation to be made, if granted permission to enter the adjoining premises, shall, at his own expense, maintain, support and protect any existing building or other structure, the safety of which may be affected by that part of the excavation which extends to a depth greater than nine feet below the grade level nearest the point of excavation under consideration, whether or not the existing building or other structure extends to a depth of nine feet or more below grade level. If the necessary permission is not granted to the person causing such excavations to be made, it shall be the duty of the owner of the building or other structure to provide such necessary support and protection and such owner shall, if necessary, be granted permission to enter the premises where the excavation is to be made.
(c) Support of Party Walls. A party wall, the safety of which may be affected by an excavation, shall be maintained, supported and protected at the expense of the person causing the excavation to be made.
(Ord. 1956-88. Passed 10-1-56.)
(Ord. 1956-88. Passed 10-1-56.)
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