[Adopted 1-27-1992 by Ord. No. 1496 (Ch. 21, Part 4, of the 1995 Code)]
From and after the passage and approval of this article, the following regulations shall govern the width and construction of all streets and highways in the City of DuBois, whether the same be built and constructed by the City of DuBois or constructed by private persons, firms or corporations within the limits of the City of DuBois.
A. 
Grades. The street grades shall be submitted to the City Engineer for approval.
B. 
Preparation of streets for paving.
(1) 
Where slopes, fills, embankments, walls or culverts are necessary and required, the same shall be presented to the City Engineer for approval.
(2) 
Sanitary sewers shall not be constructed or laid until a permit shall be secured from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and plans approved by the City Engineer.
(3) 
Storm sewers shall be constructed under the supervision of the City Engineer only after the plans, size of pipe, pipe material, etc., have been approved by him.
(4) 
All water, gas, steam pipes or conduits shall be laid prior to street construction, and the laterals, branches or extensions of same shall be extended to the inside lot line of the curb under the supervision of the City Engineer.
C. 
Street construction.
(1) 
Where bituminous concrete shall be permitted for use as street surfacing, it shall be in combination with reinforced cement concrete; and eighteen-inch reinforced cement concrete gutter shall be laid on each side of said street adjoining and inside the reinforced cement concrete box-type curb.
(2) 
All newly constructed curbs shall be the box-type and constructed of reinforced concrete or shall be the extruded-type constructed of precast concrete and securely fastened to the ground.
(3) 
All streets shall be constructed with the materials, and in accordance with the methods and requirements as set forth under current specifications of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Transportation.
D. 
Bonds. A labor and material and a maintenance bond for a period of two years shall be furnished by every contractor in favor of the City of DuBois for all street construction.
A. 
Every public highway, street, lane or alley or part thereof, and the sidewalks thereof when included as part of the improvement, the setting of curb stones and the providing for the drainage thereof may be graded, paved and otherwise improved, and notice of payment of the cost and expense of the same shall be given to the owners of the real estate bounding and abutting along the line of said improvement. Said cost and expense upon the abutting real estate shall be assessed in accordance with the foot-front or benefit rule as is provided by law.
B. 
In the event that the City of DuBois should be an owner of any of the real estate bounding and abutting along the line of said improvement and should have entered into a lease for the use of said real estate, then the notice of payment of the cost and expense of the improvement shall be given to the lessee of the real estate owned by the City of DuBois and bounding and abutting along the line of said improvement. In such instance, the cost and expense upon the abutting real estate shall be assessed to the lessee of the lands of the City of DuBois in accordance with the foot-front or benefit rule as is provided by law in the place of the City of DuBois as owner of the abutting real estate.
Any assessment authorized under this article shall be paid either in full, within 60 days after notice of such assessment shall have been given to the party assessed, or in four equal semiannual installments, the first of which shall be due and payable within 60 days after such notice. All assessments, whether paid in full or in installments, shall be payable to the City Treasurer.
If any assessment authorized under this article shall not have been paid in full or if an installment payment of 1/4 the total amount of such assessment shall not have been made within 60 days after notice shall have been given to the party assessed, the entire assessment shall be due, and it shall be the duty of the Solicitor to collect the same, with interest, from the date of the completion of the improvement in any manner provided by law.
In case the party against whom an assessment shall have been made under this article shall have paid an installment of 1/4 of the total amount thereof within 30 days after notice of such assessment, such party shall pay the remaining 3/4 of such assessment in three subsequent semiannual installments, the first of which shall be due within six months after the first installment became due and the remaining installments shall become due at six-month intervals thereafter. All such installments shall bear interest at the rate of 6% per annum, commencing 30 days after the notice of total assessment referred to in § 385-40 of this article.
A. 
Whenever the City of DuBois is ready to pave or improve any street, or part thereof, the owners of all properties, improved or unimproved, abutting upon such street or part thereof, upon 10 days' notice, are hereby required at their own expense, before the paving or improvements thereof, to connect their respective properties with all sewer, water and gas lines laid along said street, by laying branch pipes from said main lines to the curb.
B. 
In the event that the City of DuBois shall be an owner of any property, improved or unimproved, abutting upon such street or part thereof, and such property shall be the subject of a lease for the use thereof entered into between the City of DuBois and a third party, the City of DuBois shall give 10 days' notice to said lessee that the lessee shall be required at his own expense, before the paving or improvement thereof, to connect his respective property with all sewer, water and gas lines laid along said street, by laying branch pipes from said main lines to the curb of the property being leased by the lessee.
Upon failure of the owners of property abutting streets to be paved or improved or upon failure of the lessees of property owned by the City of DuBois abutting streets to be paved or improved to comply with the notice to make house connections with utility pipes, the City of DuBois may do the same or cause the same to be done and may levy the cost of its work, plus 10% of the total cost, on such owner as a property lien or on such lessee as a property lien against property owned by the lessee that abuts the land which is the subject of the lease between the City of DuBois and lessee over which lessee has rights of ingress, egress and regress to reach the street which is the subject of the proposed improvement. Such lien shall be collected in any manner provided by law.