A. 
No person, other than a duly authorized City officer or employee or except as otherwise provided in Subsection B, shall make any opening or remove any pavement or sidewalk in any of the streets, avenues, alleys or public places in the City, unless he shall have obtained a permit therefor from the General Manager.
B. 
No permit shall be required for openings made for the purpose of repairing the tracks or the pavement occupied by the tracks of railroad or of street railway corporations which are required by law to maintain the pavement occupied by their tracks, nor shall a permit be required for street openings made for the purpose of carrying out City paving, water or sewer work or contracts.
[Amended 4-4-2019 by Ord. No. 1998]
Before any permit required by this article shall be granted to any person, including public service corporations, an application therefor, signed by the applicant, shall be made to the General Manager on the printed blanks provided therefor, describing the location, number, purpose and the size of the openings to be made, the kind of pavement or sidewalk to be removed, the time when such openings are desired and the length of time the openings shall remain open, together with such other information regarding the work as the General Manger may require. Each applicant shall pay a permit fee of $150 per opening and $3 per square foot for each opening. At the time of applying for a permit, the contractor must present proof of liability insurance name the City as co-insured, proof of workers compensation insurance, the Underground Facilities Protective Organization case number, and any other documentation that the General Manager deems necessary.
A. 
The General Manager shall have power to grant permits to public service corporations for opening, refilling and repaving streets, avenues and public places in the City for the construction, laying, repairing and maintaining of mains, pipes, services, conduits, manholes, railroad and railway tracks and appurtenances thereto, under the provisions of this Code and other City laws and ordinances. Before any such permit is granted, the applicant shall pay the required permit fee and file with the General Manager, such maps, plans, specifications and information regarding the proposed work as the General Manager may require, and the General Manager shall have power to prescribe such conditions and methods of doing the work as he may deem for the best interests of the City. The permittee shall be required to remove all clay or other materials which, in the opinion of the General Manager, are unsuitable for backfilling, and refill and compact all openings with appropriate backfill material and to install suitable concrete base and replace all pavements removed or disturbed by the prosecution of the work and restore the same to as good a state and condition as before the opening was made, satisfactory to the General Manager. After the completion of the work, the applicant shall keep the pavement at all times free from defects and settlements caused by the work for which the permit was granted.
B. 
Should the party to whom the permit was granted fail to properly repair the pavement within five days after written notice from the General Manager, the General Manager shall have the power to have such repairs made, and the expense therefor shall become a charge against the party to whom such permit was granted; however, in an emergency when the General Manager deems the pavement to be in a dangerous condition, the General Manager may have such repairs made without notice, and the expense thereof shall become a charge against said party. In case of nonpayment of bills for repairs, the General Manager may also withhold further permits from that party until the bills are paid.
A permit granted under this article is not transferable, and any violation thereof will be deemed a violation punishable under the provisions of this article.
A. 
The permittee shall remove and dispose of all excavated debris, trash and clay or other material which, in the opinion of the Foreman of the Water Department or his designee, is unsuitable for backfilling. The permittee shall refill all excavations with clean and dry sand, gravel or shale refill aggregate surrounding installed pipes and valves. Clean and dry gravel shall be used to fill the remainder of the excavation. All fill must be compacted in layers of 12 inches, until finish grade is reached. Fill surrounding pipes and fittings must also be suitably compacted.
B. 
Prior to refilling an excavation, the Foreman of the Water Department or his designee must be notified and must inspect water and/or sewer connections to mains and the suitability of the backfill material. Excavations may not be refilled without the specific permission of the Foreman of the Water Department or his designee.
C. 
The permittee shall comply with the provisions of § 244-7 of this chapter and any and all requirements and regulations that the General Manager made deem appropriate.
D. 
The permittee shall maintain the excavation free from defects and settlements caused by the work for which the permit was issued, for a period of one year, commencing after final pavement has been installed. The permittee shall be responsible for any damage to motor vehicles, property or persons caused by the failure to maintain the excavation in a safe and passable condition. Should the party to whom the permit was granted fail to properly repair the pavement within five days after written notice from the General Manager or his designee, the General Manager or his designee shall have the power to have such repairs made, and the expense therefor shall become a charge against the party to whom the permit was issued. Until the permittee reimburses the City, the permittee shall be ineligible to be issued further permits.
The General Manager shall have the power to issue a permit to any applicant who desires to open the sidewalk of any street, avenue, alley or public place in the City for the purpose of making or repairing water or sewer connections, or for any other purpose whatever, if the applicant therefor files the proper application therefor and pays the permit fee required by this article. The applicant to whom the permit is granted shall be required to refill all openings and replace and repair all sod, flag, brick or cement sidewalks, curb, pavement or other work disturbed or injured by reason of the opening in a manner satisfactory to the General Manager.
Where the City employees of the Department of Public Works make openings in the pavements, sidewalks or other public places of the City and find defects in the water services or house drains for which the owner of the water services or house drains is responsible, the plumber employed to repair the defects shall make application and obtain permits for such openings in the same manner as is herein provided for other openings.
Any person, except as herein provided, who shall make any opening or remove the pavement or sidewalk in any street, avenue, alley or public place in the City without first having obtained a permit therefor from the General Manager or who shall violate any provisions of this article shall be guilty of a violation and, upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to a penalty as set forth in Chapter 1, General Provisions, Article III, General Penalty, and will bear the cost of replacement of paving for each offense, and each opening made without such permit shall constitute a separate offense.