No person, firm or corporation shall open up, dig or excavate
in the roadbed, pavement or gutters of any street or public place
of the Village of Farmingdale, or alter the grade thereof, except
upon compliance with the provisions herein and in accordance with
a permit issued by the Village Clerk-Treasurer as hereinafter provided.
The fee hereby established for the issuance of such permit shall be
set from time to time by resolution of the Board of Trustees, with
a schedule of such fees to be maintained by the Village Clerk-Treasurer,
except that no fee shall be charged a public service corporation for
the installation or relocation of poles. Said fee is to cover the
cost of issuing and recording the permit and the supervision and inspection
of the work done in connection therewith.
No person, firm or corporation shall be permitted to tunnel
under any roadbed, pavement or any street of the Village, but shall
completely cut through said roadbed or pavement from the surface thereof
or by jacking a sleeve under the road.
As a condition precedent to receiving a permit, the applicant shall agree that immediately upon completion of his work, and, when required, after inspection and approval, he will backfill the excavation and forthwith notify the Village Superintendent of Public Works that the same has been backfilled. Thereafter, when the Village restores the street at the place excavated to complete the repair, the cost thereof will be paid by the permittee, the amount due being taken from the sum placed on deposit as provided in §
485-17A hereof, and the balance, if any, shall be refunded to the permittee. Until such complete repair has been made, all liability for the condition of the street shall remain upon the permittee.
All street openings, excavations and grading in any street of
the Village of Farmingdale ordered by the Village Board of Trustees
or performed by the Street Department of the Incorporated Village
of Farmingdale shall be exempt from the provisions of this article.
Whenever any concrete surface is opened in any street or public place of the Village of Farmingdale, replacement shall be made with a concrete panel having a minimum width of 10 feet. On stone-base roads, replacement must be made by installing a four-inch thickness of two-inch crushed stone, penetrated and chinked and finished with a one-and-one-half-inch wearing course. On oiled-dirt roads, replacement must be made with two inches of cold, asphaltic patch. Replacement of stone-base and oiled-dirt roads must be made by cutting away surrounding road surface to extend a minimum of two feet beyond the extremities of the asphaltic opening or trench in all directions unless a smaller cutback is permitted or directed by the Village Superintendent of Public Works. Before any trench opening shall be made with a trenching machine, the applicant shall notify the Village Superintendent of Public Works of the time work is to be commenced, which notification shall be given at least 24 hours prior to commencement of such work, except as provided in §
485-23.
Whenever the surface of a street is disturbed or an opening
made therein, or when as a result of work done thereon there exists
a depression below the surrounding grade or an elevation higher than
the grade because of excess backfill or for other reasons, the persons
to whom the permit was issued or who have caused the hazard shall
provide adequate safeguard to the public by erecting a barrier or
fence, of distinctive type or color, marking the outside limits of
the affected area, and bearing warning signs distinguishable by day
and adequate numbers of lighted lanterns or flares to give warning
of the danger after dark.