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.
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.