[R.O. 2010 §535.070; C.O. 1948 c. 7 §5-1; CC 1970 §28-7]
The City Administrator is hereby authorized to grant permission to the owners of property fronting upon or adjoining any street, avenue, public highway or alley to grade, contract or reconstruct the curbing, guttering or roadway paving of such street, avenue or public highway at the property owner's own cost and expense.
[R.O. 2010 §535.080; C.O. 1948 c. 7 §5-4; CC 1970 §28-8]
Application for permits shall be made in writing upon forms or blanks issued by the City. All applications shall state clearly and fully the work proposed to be done, the cost thereof, and shall be signed by the owner or his/her agent and filed with the City Administrator. Applications shall be accompanied by plans and specifications and a cross-section of the proposed improvement, which shall show all drains, inlets and surface water pipes, the length and size thereof and their outlets, and which shall be approved by the Board of Aldermen. No permit shall be granted until provision has been made to pipe the surface water to flow along the street to the nearest stream or watercourse or until the applicant shall have furnished the City with an easement over all adjoining property upon which the surface water from the streets will drain or flow, granting to the City the right to drain or dump the water on the adjoining property.
[R.O. 2010 §535.090; C.O. 1948 c. 7 §5-2; CC 1970 §28-9]
Before permission is issued under Section 520.070, the person making application therefor shall pay into the City Treasury a sum of money to be fixed by the Board of Aldermen, but not less in any case than one hundred dollars ($100.00) for every three hundred (300) feet or fraction thereof. The sum shall be a special fund out of which shall be paid the cost of all engineering and inspection which shall become necessary on account of any work done under such permission, as well as all costs for refilling or any other expenses to which the City may be put on account of such work or of any violations of the conditions or regulations under which the same is done. If, after deducting all such payment there is any remainder, it shall be returned to the person by whom the fund was deposited.
[R.O. 2010 §535.100; C.O. 1948 c. 7 §5-3; CC 1970 §28-10]
No work under this Article shall commence until the grade of such street, avenue, public highway or alley has been approved. The cost of establishing the grade of such street, avenue, public highway or alley shall be borne by the person proposing the grade, construction or reconstruction of the street, avenue, public highway or alley.
[R.O. 2010 §535.110; C.O. 1948 c. 7 §5-6; CC 1970 §28-11]
If the matters mentioned in the application for a permit, or if the plans and specifications accompanying and illustrating the same indicate to the City Administrator that the work to be done is not in all respects in accordance with the provisions of this Article, he/she shall refuse to issue a permit until such application, and plans and specifications have been made to conform in every respect to such requirement. When such application and plans and specifications conform thereto, the City Administrator shall issue a permit and shall indicate his/her approval on the application and plans and specifications and file the same with the City Clerk.
[R.O. 2010 §535.120; C.O. 1948 c. 7 §5-7; CC 1970 §28-12]
If the work upon any street shall be conducted in violation of the provisions of this Article as to the use or application of material or workmanship or by deviation from the approved plans and specifications, it shall be the duty of the City Administrator to revoke the permit for such work. It shall be unlawful after the revocation of a permit for any person to proceed with such work, until the permit shall first have been reinstated or reissued by the City Administrator. Before a permit which has been revoked for any of the causes hereinbefore mentioned shall be reinstated, the entire work shall have first been placed in condition corresponding with the requirements of this Article, and any work or material applied to the same in violation of the provisions of this Article shall be removed therefrom. No permit shall be of any force or effect after the expiration of one (1) year from the date of its issuance.
[R.O. 2010 §535.130; C.O. 1948 c. 7 §5-8; CC 1970 §28-13; Ord. No. 14-03 §1, 1-17-2004]
A. 
The following specifications shall be deemed to be the minimum specifications for the construction or reconstruction of roadway paving of streets, avenues, public highways and alleys within the City:
1. 
Subgrade. The subgrade shall be prepared to the satisfaction of the Supervisor of the Street Department. The crown or side slope shall be not less than two-tenths (.2) of an inch or more than four-tenths (.4) of an inch per foot depending upon the grade of the proposed street.
2. 
Width. The prepared or improved part of the roadway shall not be less than twenty-six (26) feet in width back to back of curb. This width shall include a two (2) foot concrete curb and gutter on each side of the surface. The Board of Aldermen shall have the authority to decrease the required street width in regard to accepting a private street into the public street system depending on the existing conditions of the street and its relationship to connecting public streets.
3. 
Base. The base shall be constructed of not less than seven (7) inches of two (2) inch macadam placed in two (2) three and one-half (3½) inch lifts, properly choked and waterbound or two (2) three and one-half (3½) inch lifts of pug mill. The base is to be prepared to grade and shall be approved by the Supervisor of the Street Department.
4. 
Surface. The surface shall be constructed by placement on an approved base a minimum of two (2) inches of asphaltic concrete, compacted thickness, wearing surface.
5. 
Alternate base and surface. In place of the afore-described base and surface, the paving may be a minimum of twenty-six (26) feet back to back of integral curbs of concrete pavement a minimum of six (6) inches thick, the back of curb thickness being a minimum of nine (9) inches in the case of lip curbs and a minimum of twelve (12) inches in the case of vertical type concrete curbs.