(a)
Permit required.
Any person desiring to cut, open, or
excavate any street, alley, sidewalk or other public right-of-way
in the city for the purpose of installing or repairing any gas, water,
sanitary sewer, telephone or electric lines, or for any other purpose
whatsoever, shall first obtain a street use permit therefor from the
city.
(b)
Permit fee.
For any permittee other than a city franchisee, the fee for administration and inspection related to a street use permit shall be as provided in the fee schedule in appendix A of this code.
(c)
Bond; insurance.
Prior to the issuance of a street use
permit, the applicant shall provide to the city proof of liability
insurance as set forth in section 1.26, “Insurance,” of
the Standard Specifications for Public Works Construction, North Central
Texas, 1983, as amended. In addition, the applicant will give good
and sufficient bond in the sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00),
in a form to be approved by the city attorney, conditioned to conform
to the regulations of this division and other ordinances or laws in
reference to public works construction. The bond required under this
provision shall be executed by the applicant as principal and by a
corporate surety authorized to do business under the laws of the state.
(2005 Code, sec. 12.1.10)
When any street, sidewalk or other public right-of-way shall
have been cut, opened or excavated pursuant to this division, the
person performing such work shall backfill the excavation, and restore
the surface to the condition in which it was found prior to the excavation.
Such backfill and restoration shall be done in compliance with the
standards contained in the general specifications for street construction
of the city.
(2005 Code, sec. 12.1.11)
It shall be unlawful for any person to drive or ride upon, across
or over any part of any street or alley in the city while such part
of said street or alley is being paved, surfaced, excavated or repaired
when such area is designated as being closed to traffic by appropriate
signing erected at such place by or at the direction of the city.
(2005 Code, sec. 12.1.12)
It shall be unlawful for any person to cut, open or excavate
any street, alley, or other public right-of-way in the city without
the erection, installation and display of barricades, warning devices,
and other precautionary safety measures as herein provided. Further,
it shall be unlawful for any person to make any cut or excavation
or perform any other work in or adjacent to such public right-of-way
without the erection, installation and display of barricades, warning
devices, and other precautionary safety measures as herein provided.
(2005 Code, sec. 12.1.13)
Any person who shall undertake to perform any work upon, in,
under, above, or about any street, alley, curb, gutter, sidewalk,
or any public right-of-way within the city shall, as an express condition
precedent for the issuance and continuing validity of a street use
permit for such work, furnish to the city, prior to the issuance of
any permit for said work, a scale plat or sketch showing the work
area, the space within the right-of-way required for the work, and
a proposed plan for the use of barricades, signals, signs, flags,
and other traffic-control and safety devices about the work area.
(2005 Code, sec. 12.1.14)
The city engineer may require that the work be done only at
certain hours during the day or night, that materials or equipment
used in such work and dirt and materials removed from any excavation
be located other than adjacent to the work area where feasible, and
that any excavation be covered with materials of sufficient strength
and construction to permit limited vehicular traffic to pass at all
times.
(2005 Code, sec. 12.1.15)
