Any person having or erecting any building abutting upon any street, avenue, or alley in the city, may excavate under the sidewalk to the curb for any purpose of constructing a cellar or basement under the sidewalk in front of or adjoining said building; provided, that said excavation shall be surrounded upon the outer side and ends thereof with a substantial wall, to be approved by the Building Committee, sufficient to maintain the said sidewalk. The plan of said sidewalk shall be approved by the Building Committee; and provided further, the permission to make such excavations and to construct such sidewalk shall be first obtained from the Finance Officer. The excavation shall be securely guarded by barricades at all times and one or more lighted lanterns in the nighttime, so long as the same shall remain open.
(Prior Code, § 11-6-9)