[Adopted 2-27-2024 by Ord. No. 408[1]]
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Editor's Note: This ordinance also repealed former Art. I, Openings and Excavations, adopted 5-29-1974 by Ord. No. 80, as amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
It shall be unlawful for any person to make any tunnel, opening, drill holes, or excavation of any kind in or under any street without first securing a permit from the Township for each separate undertaking; provided, however, any person maintaining pipes, lines or other underground facilities in or under the surface of any street.
The application for a permit shall be on a form prescribed by the Township and submitted to the Township. The application shall be accompanied by a fee in accordance with the Schedule of Fees set forth by the Board of Supervisors Fee Schedule, adopted from time to time, and restoration charges. In addition, the applicant shall submit two copies of a sketch showing such dimensions as the location of the intended facility, width of the traveled roadway, right-of-way lines and a dimension to the nearest intersection street. Applications submitted without the required information and fee will be considered incomplete until the information has been submitted.
A permit shall be issued to the applicant after all the aforementioned requirements have been filed.
Upon completion of the work, the applicant shall give written notice thereof to the Township.
Upon completion of the work authorized by the permit, the Township or their designee shall inspect the work and, when necessary, enforce compliance with the conditions, restrictions and regulations prescribed by the permit. In addition to that inspection, the Board of Supervisors or its agents may reinspect the work not more than two years after its completion, and if any settlement of the road surface or other defect appears in the work contrary to the conditions, restrictions and regulations of the Township, the Board of Supervisors may enforce compliance therewith. If the applicant fails to rectify a defect which presents an immediate or imminent safety or health problem within 48 hours or any other defect within 60 days after written notice from the Township to do so, the Township may do the work and shall impose upon the applicant the cost thereof, together with an additional 20% of such cost.
Any person, firm, corporation or utility which shall violate any of the provisions of this article shall be subject, upon conviction before a Magisterial District Judge, to pay a fine of not more than $300, and cost of prosecution, or to imprisonment in the county jail for not more than five days, or both.