[Amended 10-29-1996, effective 11-12-1996]
A. Every owner or occupant of any premises who shall receive a permit
for the construction of any sewer or vault or to open any street or
public place in front of his premises shall refill, relay and replace
the pavement and surface of the street and sidewalk removed for that
purpose or disturbed by him in as good condition as the same was before
the work of building such sewer or vault or opening such street or
sidewalk was commenced, and if he fails to do so, the Commissioner
of Public Works may cause such street or sidewalk to be refilled,
relaid or repaved and shall report the expense thereof to the Common
Council, which shall cause such expense to be assessed to the premises
in front of which such work was done.
B. In the event the cobblestone pattern on Elmwood Avenue between Forest
Avenue and Delevan Avenue is removed or broken, it shall be replaced
by the permit holder in as good condition as the cobblestone pattern
sidewalk was before the work of building any sewer or vault or opening
a street or sidewalk was commenced, and if he fails to do so, the
Commissioner of Public Works may cause such street or sidewalk to
be refilled, relaid or repaved in a cobblestone pattern that conforms
with the rest of the cobblestone pattern on Elmwood Avenue between
Forest Avenue and Delevan Avenue and shall report the expense thereof
to the Common Council, which shall cause such expense to be assessed
to the premises in front of which such work was done.
Every person who shall receive a permit to construct a vault
or sewer or to open any street or public place in front of his premises
for any purpose shall, at all times after such vault, sewer or opening
shall have been commenced and until the same shall be completed, carefully
guard the same so that persons and vehicles passing along the street
or sidewalk shall not be liable to fall into any excavation made for
such purposes and shall, during the whole of every night that such
excavation shall remain open, cause the same to be kept securely fenced
and covered and a light to be placed and kept upon such fence so secured
and protected that the same shall not be extinguished.
Whenever a majority petition for paving a street is granted,
or the paving is ordered under a notice of intention, the Common Council
shall direct the City Engineer to cause all necessary sewer, water
and gas connections to be made by the contractor for paving said street
after the order for contracting for paving said street has been adopted
by the Common Council. The bills for said connections to be rendered
by linear foot of sewer and by linear foot of water pipes, plus water
box and expenses for tapping, said prices not to exceed a certain
sum to be included in the specifications for paving said street. After
the order for the assessment for paving said street has been approved
by the Mayor, the City Engineer shall be authorized to refuse to grant
any permits to put in private sewer and water connections until the
pavement is finished or the proceedings for said pavement are rescinded.
All plans and specifications for the paving, repaving or resurfacing
of any streets or public places shall include a provision that all
stone curbing brought into the City of Buffalo, as quarried or dressed
and trimmed, shall be subject to inspection and testing, prior to
installation, by the City or by an independent laboratory approved
by the Commissioner of Public Works, and the cost of such testing
shall be borne by the contractor.