[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village
of Lancaster 3-9-1964 as Article III of the Plumbing Code (Ch. 73 of the 1976
Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
No person, firm or corporation shall open or cause to be opened,
by cutting or digging, the surface, pavement or soil in any street,
highway or public ground in the Village of Lancaster without first
securing the written consent of the Board of Trustees or other authorized
Village official, and paying the following prescribed fees therefor,
or without complying with the following provisions and conditions
relating thereto.
[Amended 6-29-1976 by L.L. No. 11-1976]
The fees for street openings shall be as set forth in Ch. 144, Fees, of the Code of the Village of Lancaster.
Any person, firm or corporation making or causing to be made any excavation in the streets, highways or public grounds of the Village of Lancaster shall properly guard or barricade such excavation at all times, and install and maintain at night proper and sufficient red lights or flares to warn travelers, and shall restore the highway to its former usefulness, according to § 139-4.
All excavated materials shall be removed, following which all
openings shall be carefully backfilled for their entire length, width
and depth in the street area, including the area between the curb
and the property line, with crushed gravel or crushed stone, well
tamped. Additional crushed gravel or crushed stone shall be added
by the permittee as long as any settlement occurs, following which
the pavement will be restored by the Village of Lancaster if necessary.
A.
Public service corporations may, in lieu of paying the fees established in § 139-1, file with the Village Clerk a bond to be approved by the Village Attorney as to the form, amount and sufficiency of sureties, conditioned upon the proper restoration of highways and public places in accordance with the directions of the Superintendent of Public Works and to his satisfaction; the payment to the Village, upon demand, of any costs and expenses incurred by said Village; and the saving of the Village of Lancaster, its officers and employees harmless from any loss, injury or damage due to opening highway or public places or due to any negligence or fault of such corporations, their employees or agents, in connection therewith.
B.
All persons, firms or corporations engaged within the Village of
Lancaster in the telephone, gas or electric business, or any other
business the nature of which would require or result in frequent applications
for permits to make constructions or excavations in the streets or
highways of the Village, shall not, however, be required to obtain
separate permits, but in all such cases a general bond shall be given
in lieu of any permit, indemnifying the Village of Lancaster from
any and all loss, cost or damage, as aforesaid, resulting or arising
directly or indirectly at any time from any act done by said public
service corporation. Said bond shall be in the amount of $20,000 and
shall be renewed annually, or as long as such person, firm or corporation
continues to do business within the Village of Lancaster.
Applications for making an excavation in or upon any public
street, avenue or other public place within the Village of Lancaster
will be accepted only if they are made by:
All work done pursuant to this chapter shall be done and performed
subject to the supervision and approval of the Superintendent of Public
Works or his authorized agent.
