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Town of New Milford, CT
Litchfield County
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[Ord. of 3-28-1969, § 11]
No person shall install, in any street, any new curb or walk or combined curb and gutter, or relay any existing curb or walk or combined curb and gutter, unless he shall first apply for and obtain a permit therefor from the Board of Selectmen, but the provisions of this section shall not prevent the making, without such permit, of minor repairs to an existing curb or walk or combined curb and gutter by the owner of the property in front of which such curb or walk or combined curb and gutter is located, or by such owner's agent.
[Ord. of 3-28-1969, § 12]
Every person making application for the permit required by this division shall file with the Board of Selectmen a satisfactory bond in the sum of $1,000, conditioned substantially that the applicant shall indemnify and save harmless the town and the Board of Selectmen and its agents from all suits and actions of every name and description brought against the town, or any officer of the town, for or on account of any injuries or damage received or sustained by any person in consequence of or as a result of any work performed by such applicant, his servants or agents, or of any negligence in guarding such work or of any act or omission of such applicant, his servants or agents, that such applicant shall faithfully perform such work in all respects, and shall replace and restore that portion of any street, in which such applicant, his servants or agents shall make any excavation, to as good condition as that in which the same was before such work was performed.
[Ord. of 3-28-1969, § 13]
A Town Highway Department Foreman shall supervise the construction of all new curbs, walks, combined curbs and gutters, and all other work of a similar nature installed under the provisions of this article, but such supervision shall not relieve the permittee from any obligation to perform the work strictly in accordance with the rules and regulations and specifications therefor, or from the responsibility which he is expected to assume.