When any person, firm or corporation shall desire to move any house, building or heavy machinery over any public street, alley, sidewalk or other public grounds of the city, such person, firm or corporation shall apply to the city administrator for a written permit to move same subject to the provisions of this division. It shall be the duty of such person, firm or corporation, at the time of making an application to the city administrator, to present to the city administrator a good and sufficient bond signed by such person, firm or corporation as principal and by two (2) or more good and sufficient sureties or some solvent surety company in the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), payable to the city and conditioned that said principal and sureties will pay to the city, and/or to any person who may be injured or damaged by the principal or his agent, such sum or sums as will be sufficient to cover all damages occasioned by the moving of any such building, house or heavy machinery, to any streets, alleys, bridges, sidewalks, trees, culverts, hydrants, pavement, telephone and telegraph wires or electric wires in the city as well as to other property belonging to the city or any person. It shall be the duty of the city administrator to issue written permission as aforesaid to applicants to move any building, house or heavy machinery, who shall comply with the provisions of this division, granting them the right to move such building, house or heavy machinery over such route or routes as the city administrator in his discretion shall determine. Such person, firm or corporation shall give notice in writing to the telephone, telegraph and electric light companies at least six (6) hours before it shall become necessary for said companies to cut down, raise or displace any of their wires to facilitate such move, and shall compensate such telephone, telegraph and electric light companies for time and materials necessarily expended in cutting down, raising or displacing such lines and in the repair of such damages, all at a reasonable rate, such rate, in the event of disagreement, to be arbitrated by the city council.
(1987 Code, ch. 3, sec. 9(A))