Each sewer builder, plumbing contractor or other person proposing to construct such sewer or water line or make such sewer or water line connections within the Municipality shall, before performing any work under his license, deposit with the Director of Finance a bond or two thousand dollars ($2,000) with a surety company authorized to write surety bonds in the State, as surety for each permit issued and outstanding, conditioned that he will indemnify and save harmless the Municipality from all loss and damage that may be occasioned in any way by accident caused by the lack of care, skill or attention or the use of defective material on the part of the licensee or of anyone in his employ, in the prosecution or to be made by him, or of the placing of any material in any street or public highway in the making of any connection with any water pipe or sewer, as aforesaid, and conditioned also that he will promptly, at the proper time, replace and restore, or cause to be replaced and restored, the street and pavement over such opening to as good a state and condition as he found it previous to opening the same, or pay the Municipality for having the same replaced or restored, as the case may be, and that he will conform in all respects to the rules and regulations which may from time to time be established by the lawfully constituted authority of the Municipality governing the construction of or connection with such sewers or water lines. A permit shall be deemed to be outstanding within the meaning of this section until the Plumbing and Heating Inspector shall have certified that the work authorized under such permits has been completed in conformity with the rules and regulations governing such work. Upon such certification of completion being entered upon the records, such bond shall be considered as released and the obligors thereof discharged. If the work authorized by such permit is not completed in accordance with the rules and regulations therefor, the Plumbing and Heating Inspector may so notify the sewer builder and the surety upon such bond, and if the work is not thereafter completed within the time required by the Plumbing and Heating Inspector he may order the work done, and the costs and expenses thereof shall be charged against such bond. The failure on the part of any sewer builder or other person licensed hereunder to complete the work authorized under any given permit in accordance with the rules and regulations for such work shall authorize the Plumbing and Heating Inspector to revoke any and all permits issued to such sewer builder or other person licensed hereunder and then outstanding, and shall also authorize the Plumbing and Heating Inspector to refuse to issue any further permits to such sewer builder or other person licensed hereunder unless Council shall, by resolution, direct the issuance of further permits.
(Ord. 1947-3. Passed 1-8-47; Ord. 2001-27. Passed 5-1-01; Ord. 2006-022. Passed 3-7-06.)