No person, firm or corporation, including public service companies
and municipalities other than the Village of Cornwall-on-Hudson, shall
make any excavation in any street, sidewalk or highway in the village
for any purpose without first obtaining a permit therefor from the
Village Clerk as hereinafter provided.
Each applicant must pay a permit fee in an amount established
by resolution of the Board to the Village Clerk for each excavation,
except those for utility poles. However, no additional permit fee
will be charged under this chapter for any initial water tap or initial
sewer tap; and no permit fee will be charged in connection with new
construction where a building permit has been obtained.
The Street Superintendent may require any person making a sidewalk
or street excavation pursuant to a permit granted hereunder to give
notice of such excavation to public service companies or municipal
districts having lines, mains or other property in the streets, and,
when such notice shall have been required, no work shall be commenced
or done under such permit until such required notice has been fully
complied with to the satisfaction of the Street Superintendent.