No person shall do or cause to be done any blasting within the City limits, or outside of such City limits but on property owned or operated by the City, without first obtaining a permit from the City Engineer and South Metropolitan Fire Protection District, subject to all the provisions of this Chapter.
All applications for permits for blasting or use of explosives shall be signed by the person or their duly authorized agent who desires to do the blasting described in the application and shall contain such other information regarding the proposed blasting as may be required by the City Engineer.
Whenever the City Engineer shall find, from an examination of the application for blasting permit and such other information as they may deem necessary and proper to find or require, that such blasting can be done with safety to life and property, then they shall issue the permit as in this Chapter provided.
Permits granted under this Chapter shall specify the blasting to be permitted, the time such permit shall be valid and such other conditions and requirements as the City Engineer may deem safe and proper, provided that such period of validity shall not extend beyond the calendar year in which the permit is issued.
Before a permit will be issued, a certificate of insurance showing general liability coverage of no less than the amount of the current City's sovereign immunity level, must be submitted and naming the City as an additional insured.
At the time of granting a permit for blasting, the engineer shall endorse upon it whether or not the blasting shall be done subject to the inspection of the City Engineer. If the blasting is to be done subject to such inspection, the City Engineer shall, within a reasonable time, inform the grantee of a permit of the requirements of such inspection, and such grantee shall not perform or cause to be performed any blasting under the permit, contrary to such inspection requirements.
A. 
The City Engineer shall charge the grantee of a blasting permit the actual cost involved for inspection of blasting. Additionally, the City Engineer shall charge the grantee the actual cost of any seismographic tests or readings that may be required in connection with the inspection. No permit for blasting will be issued unless the grantee has deposited, with the City, the amount approved by the Governing Body and listed in the Schedule of Fees and Charges maintained in the Finance Department for payment of such inspection and testing costs. At the completion of the blasting operations after all inspection and testing costs have been determined, grantee shall pay any balance due within ten (10) days after notice of it is mailed to grantee at the address given on the application for the permit. Any unused balance of the deposit will be refunded or kept on deposit at the grantee's option. If at any time during the period that a permit remains in effect, the City Engineer determines that the inspection and testing costs are likely to exceed the amount on deposit and so notifies the grantee in writing, then, within five (5) working days, the grantee shall deposit such additional sum as the City Engineer has determined to be required or shall cease blasting.
B. 
In the event that any balance due is not paid within the ten-day period provided above, then a charge in the amount approved by the Governing Body and listed in the Schedule of Fees and Charges maintained in the Finance Department shall be paid by the grantee to cover the City's additional collection costs and administrative expenses. Additionally, the amount of the deposit required from any grantee, who, within three (3) years prior to the date of application, has failed to pay a balance due within ten (10) days provided above, shall be tripled. Upon written request of the grantee and for good cause shown, the penalties set out in this paragraph may be waived by the City Engineer.
Each applicant for a permit for blasting shall maintain a daily inventory in detail of all explosives in their possession for blasting purposes, from the date of the application to the final termination of the permit. Such inventory and stocks of the explosives included shall be subject to inspection and examination at any reasonable time by the office of the City Engineer. On the final termination of the permit, all stocks of explosives remaining unused by the permittee shall be shown or reported to the City Engineer, as they may direct, and such disposition made as shall be approved or directed by the City Engineer.
The City Engineer is hereby authorized to make and publish, from time to time, rules and regulations in conformity with and for carrying out the provisions of this Chapter respecting the conditions for issuing blasting permits, including the acquisition, daily recording, storage, transportation, disposition of explosives and the method and manner of blasting.
If, in the opinion of the City Engineer, any of the rules and regulations hereby authorized are violated in any manner, the blasting permit may be revoked.