Digging, excavating, disturbing or in any manner undermining or causing the same to be done in any street or alley in the city, except the duly authorized agents of corporations, duly organized for the purpose of supplying the city with water or gas, when they shall find it necessary to dig up, break, disturb, dig under or undermine a public street or alley for the purpose of gaining access to their pipes or mains or for laying the same, without permission from the Street Superintendent first had and obtained, whose duty it shall be to see that when any street or alley is so disturbed in any manner by any person the same shall be replaced and the streets or alleys left in as good condition as before; and if the ground in which any excavation has been made in any street or alley shall, after the refilling thereof, become in bad condition by reason of the excavation or refilling, it shall be the duty of the Street Superintendent to require the person making the same to immediately restore the ground to the condition the same was in before the excavation and a failure to comply with the request of the Street Superintendent within 24 hours will subject the person or corporation to prosecution for maintaining a nuisance.
(1995 Code, § 8.12.010)