[Adopted 6-19-1969 by Ord. No. 998 (Ch. 59, Art. V of the 1969 Code)]
The sidewalks of all streets or highways of said Town now or hereafter laid out shall be uniformly paved the width and manner ordered by resolution of the Town Council or, if no such resolution has been adopted, the full width thereof as ordained in the manner and of materials hereinafter specified.
All sidewalks, curbs and gutters in said Town shall be well and sufficiently constructed, repaved and maintained, under the supervision of the Municipal Engineer, at the expense of the person or persons in front of or along whose lot or lots of ground such paving, curbing or guttering may be required to be done.
A. 
Curbs, curbs and gutters and sidewalks.
(1) 
Curbs, integral curbs and gutters and sidewalks shall be constructed of concrete composed of portland cement, aggregate and water. Curbs shall be either Type A or Type B integral curb and gutter as designated by the Municipal Engineer.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: See diagram located at the end of this chapter.
(2) 
Sidewalks shall be a minimum of four inches thick with a slope of 1/4 inch per foot down toward the curb.
(3) 
Precast concrete unit pavers and interlocking concrete unit pavers shall meet or exceed ASTM C-936/82 and/or ASTM C-150, C-33. Paving work shall be plumb, level and true to line and grade, be installed in accordance with manufacturer's recommendations, properly coincide and align with adjacent work and elevations.
[Added 7-15-2003 by Ord. No. O:2003-10]
B. 
Materials. Portland cement and air-entraining agents shall comply with applicable American Society for Testing and Materials specifications. Aggregate shall be clean, free from vegetable matter, hard, durable and well graded. Sand shall be natural sand or an artificial sand having cubical particles produced from a durable coarse aggregate. It must be clean and well graded. The coarse aggregate shall be well-graded gravel or crushed stone having clean, hard, durable uncoated particles free from deleterious materials. Should steel bars or welded wire fabric be used for reinforcement, they shall be clean, free from harmful rust, and comply with current American Society for Testing and Materials specifications. Water shall be clean and fit to drink. Joint filler shall be nonextrusive premolded material, one-half-inch thick and as wide as the curb, gutter or sidewalk. All materials used shall be subject to the approval of the Municipal Engineer.
C. 
Concrete mixes. Concrete shall be machine mixed in the proportion of one volume of portland cement, 2 1/4 volumes of sand and three volumes of coarse aggregate. Not more than six gallons of water including that contained in the aggregates, shall be used per sack of portland cement. The maxims size aggregate shall be one inch. The mix shall contain 6% plus 1% entrained air.
D. 
Curb or curb and gutter construction.
(1) 
Forms. Forms shall be of steel or sufficient strength to resist the pressure of wet concrete. When forming returns or curved sections, flexible strips may be used. The forms shall be held with suitable clamps and stakes to prevent movement or bulging when the concrete is being placed.
(2) 
Joint filler. Joint filler shall be spaced at twenty-foot intervals. Midway between joint fillers and spaced at twenty-foot intervals, divider plates shall be used. All joints shall be poured with joint sealer to be provided by the Town.
(3) 
Divider plates. Divider plates for separate curb or for combined curb and gutter shall be of steel. They shall be of the correct size and shape and shall not be bent or otherwise deformed.
(4) 
Subgrade shall be well drained and compacted to a firm surface having a uniform bearing power. It shall be wet down so as to be moist immediately before the concrete is placed.
(5) 
Finishing. The concrete shall be struck off true to cross section, after which it shall be finished smooth and even by means of a wood float. Face forms, if used, shall be left in place until the concrete has hardened sufficiently so that they can be removed without injury to the curb. The exposed surfaces shall then be finished smooth and even by means of moist wood float or a moist-wet brick. The edges shall be rounded with an edging tool. No tool marks are to be left on exposed edges. Before final finishing, gutters shall be tested with a ten-foot straight edge to see the finished gradient is uniform. Any depressions which will be corrected.
(6) 
Curing. As soon as possible without marring, the finished curb and gutters shall be covered with polyethelene and windproofed with a layer of earth along its entire periphery for a period of three days, or longer if directed. As an alternate where practical, white-pigmented membrane seal coats may be used. In cold weather curbs and gutters shall be protected from freezing during the curing period.
E. 
Sidewalk construction.
(1) 
Forms. Forms may be of wood or metal, staked so that they hold to line and grade. Forms should be oiled before concrete is placed.
(2) 
Grading. The subgrade should be thoroughly tamped, all sod and vegetable matter removed, and any soft or mucky places dug out and filled with granular material. When additional fills are needed under walks to bring them to proper grade, they should be of granular material thoroughly compacted in six-inch layers.
(3) 
Finishing. The concrete should be placed in the forms and tamped and spaded just enough to compact it firmly. It should then be struck off to the level of the forms, smoothed with a wood float or darby, leveling any raised spots and filling depressions. Edges should then be rounded with an edger. A hair broom drawn over the concrete will produce a slightly rough, gritty, nonskid surface.
(4) 
Joints. Contraction joints at five-foot intervals should be formed by cutting a slot one inch deep by 1/2 inch wide. A double edger held against a straight edge should be used to make a straight joint. Expansion joints of one-half-inch thick premolded material and as wide as the depth of the walk should be placed wherever the walk meets another walk, driveway, building, curb, lighting standard, fire hydrant or other rigid object. They are placed on all four sides of the square formed by the intersection of two walks. When the sidewalk fills the space between the curb and a building or wall, an expansion joint should be placed between the sidewalk and the building or wall.
(5) 
Curing. Newly placed concrete should not be permitted to dry out too fast and must be protected from the sun or drying winds. This may be accomplished with burlap, watertight paper or polyethelene. The concrete should be kept wet by occasional water for three days. A membrane seal coat sprayed on the surface of the concrete immediately after finishing can be used to prevent evaporation from the freshly placed concrete.
[Added 6-4-1985 by Ord. No. O:85-11; amended 11-5-1986 by Ord. No. O:86-38; 10-4-1994 by Ord. No. O:94-31]
A. 
At the time of new construction, sidewalks, curbs and gutters must be constructed in accordance with this article prior to a certificate of occupancy being issued.
B. 
The Town Council may waive the requirement in Subsection A if the Municipal Engineer certifies that the existing conditions prohibit the required improvements from being made in a safe fashion.
C. 
With respect to new developments, the Municipal Engineer may recommend, and the Town Council may approve, the use of Belgian block curbing in lieu of concrete curbing. Town Council may approve precast concrete unit pavers and/or the use of Belgian block curbing in lieu of concrete sidewalk or concrete curbing.
[Added 8-1-1995 by Ord. No. O:95-28; amended 7-15-2003 by Ord. No. O:2003-10]
A. 
The Town Council may by ordinance provide for the construction and reconstruction, paving and repaving, curbing and recurbing, repairing and improving of the sidewalks of the streets and highways of the Town, at the cost of the owner or owners of the real estate in front of which the improvement is made.
B. 
Before making such improvement, the Town Council shall cause a notice of the proposed improvement to be given to the owner or owners of all real estate affected thereby. Said notice shall contain a description of property affected sufficiently to identify it, a description of the improvement and a statement that unless the owner or owners complete the same within 30 days after service thereof, the Town will make the improvement at the expense of the owners.
C. 
If the owner of any real estate affected by such improvement after passage of this article and notice given as in Subsection B above shall fail to make such improvement, the Town may cause the improvement to be made under supervision of the Municipal Engineer, who shall keep an accurate account of the cost thereof and shall assess such cost upon the several properties fronting on the improvement in proportion to the respective frontage thereon, and file a report thereof with the Municipal Clerk. The Town Council shall examine such report and, if properly made, confirm and file it with the officer charged with the collection of assessments, who shall record the same in book in which other assessments of the Town are recorded. Before confirming the report the Town Council shall give notice to the owner or owners of the time and place fixed for examination of the report.