Any person within the confines of the Town, who shall voluntarily or pursuant to a notice given under Section 31 of the Town of Milton Charter, construct or lay a curb or curbing along or in front of any property within the Town shall be required to conform to rules and regulations of this article.
All curbs or curbing shall be constructed of concrete cast poured
in well-supported forms at one pouring at a time when the outside
temperature shall not be below 40° F.
[Amended 6-4-2018 by Ord.
No. 2018-002]
All curbs and curbing shall conform to the line
and grade as the same is established by the Town Manager or designee.
All curbs and curbing laid within the Town shall
have a minimum width of six inches at the top and 7 1/2 inches
at the bottom.
All curbs or curbing laid within the Town shall
have a minimum depth of 18 inches.
The concrete used shall be composed of one part
cement to two parts of fine aggregate to four parts of coarse aggregate
by volume.
The cement used shall be Portland cement and
shall meet the requirements of the Standard Specifications of the
American Society of Testing Materials.
The fine aggregate used shall consist of clean,
natural or beach sand or screenings from hard, tough, crushed rock
and well graded. All fine aggregate used shall pass through a one-fourth-inch
screen and 95% shall be retained in on a one-hundred-mesh screen.
The coarse aggregate used shall consist of hard,
durable, clean and uncoated pebbles, broken stone or blast furnace
slag, or thoroughly washed gravel. All course aggregate shall pass
through a one-inch screen and 95% shall be retained in a one-fourth-inch
screen.
The water used shall be clean enough to drink
and shall not exceed 6 1/4 gallons per ninety-six-pound bag of
cement.
The subgrade of any curb or curbing shall consist
of a layer of gravel, or cinders, shall be well drained, and shall
be compacted to a minimum layer of six inches of a firm surface with
a uniform bearing power.
The drains or weep holes of any curb or curbing
shall consist of wrought or galvanized pipe, of a minimum diameter
of 3/4 inch, with a minimum space of ten-foot centers and shall be
provided through curbing supporting or retaining waterlogged soil.
When any curb or curbing is poured, it shall
be retained or conformed in forms made of smooth forced lumber, bearing
a minimum thickness of two-inch lumber board or of steel of equal
strength. On all curbs, flexible strips of lumber or metal shall be
used and shall be rigidly held in line and grade by stakes and braces.
The concrete used in the pouring of any curb
or curbing shall be mixed until each particle of fine aggregate is
coated with cement and until each particle of coarse aggregate is
coated with mortar.
The curb shall be cut into separate sections
not greater than eight feet in length with the outer surface edge
rounded to a minimum radius of 1/2 inch. The slabs shall be separated
by division plates of steel of a minimum thickness of 1/8 inch and
shall be commensurate with both the width and depth of the curb or
curbing.
The expansion joints of any curb or curbing
shall have a maximum spacing of eight feet on any one course where
the curb intersects a sidewalk or another curb shall extend from the
surface to the subgrade, shall be at right angles to the curb surface,
and shall be completely filled with compressible material consisting
of premolded strips of bitumen filled fiber or mineral aggregate at
least 1/2 inch thick, five inches wide and two inches long. At all
intersections with a sidewalk or other curb, expansion joints shall
have a minimum thickness of one inch.
Sidewalks and curbs shall be poured at the same
time when it is necessary to install or replace both.
[Amended 6-4-2018 by Ord.
No. 2018-002]
The Town Manager, in consultation with the Public Works Supervisor,
shall, upon request, inspect any curb or curbing laid within the Town.
Should such curb or curbing comply and conform to this article, the
Town Manager shall certify that fact, in writing, to the person requesting
the certificate to that effect.
[Amended 6-4-2018 by Ord.
No. 2018-002]
A.
Any person laying, constructing, or repairing or causing to be laid, constructed or repaired, any curb or curbing within the Town who shall fail to comply with this article shall, upon conviction, be subjected to a fine provided for in § 1-18.
B.
The Town Manager or designee shall immediately forward to the owner of the property abutting or which any curb or curbing shall have been laid in violation of this article a notice to repair such curb or curbing so that the curb or curbing shall conform to this article. Upon the failure of any abutting owner to comply with said notice in the space of 60 days, the procedure set forth in Section 31 of the Charter of the Town shall be pursued.
