This article shall constitute and be known as the "Sidewalk Code," and may be cited as such and presumptively provides for all matters concerning, affecting or relating to the construction, repair or maintenance of all curbs, gutters, sidewalks and driveways or any other construction in any street between the property lines thereof.
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
CONTRACTOR
The party contracting for or doing any work described herein or the authorized representative of such party.
ENGINEER
The Village Engineer or his authorized representative.
SIDEWALK
Any walkway, pathway, right-of-way or area, whether improved or unimproved, paralleling both sides of any street, highway or roadway for the entire length of such street, highway or roadway, intended for the use of pedestrians.
When any public street, alley or lane has been or hereafter shall be laid out and opened according to law in the Village, it shall be the duty of the owners of lots or real estate abutting thereon, and they are hereby enjoined and required to construct, pave, curb, repave or recurb sidewalks along such property at their own expense and keep the same in good repair. Such sidewalks and curbing shall be constructed and maintained under regulations prescribed in this article.
A. 
Whenever, in the judgment of the Village Engineer, it shall become necessary to construct sidewalks, footways, curbing and guttering or to reconstruct or repair any sidewalk, footway, curbing and guttering in the front of or adjoining any lot or other real estate abutting any of the streets, alleys, courts or ways of the Village, the Village Engineer, under the direction of the Mayor, shall give notice, in writing, to the owner of such lot or other real estate or to his duly authorized agent in charge of the same to construct, reconstruct or repair such sidewalks, footways, curbing and guttering in accord with the provisions of this article. It is hereby specially provided that for the purposes of this section, notice to the agent of a nonresident owner shall be regarded as notice to the owner.
B. 
In the case of repairs, the notice provided for in this section shall prescribe that such repairs shall be made within 30 days after service of the notice.
A. 
Upon failure of any owner to comply with a notice given him pursuant to § 196-21, the Village Engineer shall forthwith cause the work to be done by the Village, and the expense thereof shall be levied upon such property and collected from such owner with costs, which amount shall be a lien upon such premises with the incidents and remedies provided by law.
B. 
Whenever any sidewalk has been constructed, curbed, repaved or recurbed by the Village, it shall be the duty of the Village Engineer forthwith to file with the Village Clerk his certificate setting forth the time of the commencement of the work, the name of the property owner, a description of the premises and a detailed statement of the expenses of such work. It shall then be the duty of the Village Clerk, after making a record of such certificates, to transmit a copy thereof to the Village Attorney for such further proceedings as may be requisite and necessary.
No curb, gutter, sidewalk or driveway with which the general public must come in contact shall be laid, installed or constructed in any area in the Village, unless application to lay same shall have been made in writing to the Village Engineer and the Village Clerk on forms provided by the Village. The application shall specify the location and character of said curbs, gutters, sidewalks and driveways or any other construction in any street. Such application shall be executed in triplicate and numbered consecutively. When properly endorsed by said officials, it shall constitute a permit for obtaining the line and grade of sidewalks, curbs or gutters. No work shall be done until the written permit, signed by the Village Engineer and the Village Clerk, shall be issued on said application. Said officers shall each retain one copy of this permit.
All work shall be done in conformity with the specifications prepared by the Village Engineer as set forth herein and approved by the Board of Trustees.
All curbs, gutters, sidewalks or driveways shall be laid in accordance with the lines and grades furnished by a licensed professional engineer and approved by the Village Engineer. The cost of establishing the lines and grades shall be paid for by the property owner, the contractor or the agent of the owner to said professional engineer.
All work done and materials used under this article shall be under the supervision and approval of the Village Engineer or his representative.
Work under this article shall be completed within 30 days of the date of application therefor, except that when the application is made between November 15 and the following March 15, the work shall be completed before April 15 next succeeding.
All sidewalks, curbs, gutters, driveways or pavement laid, installed or constructed on any private street or on the streets of any new development not dedicated to the Village shall be subject to the same regulations and must comply in all respects with the regulations governing public streets, the title of which is vested in the Village. Failure to comply with the above will be cause for the Village to reject any proffered dedication of such streets.
A. 
All repair or replacement of existing sidewalks, curbs or gutters or driveways shall conform to the regulations hereby established for new construction.
B. 
Sidewalks and curbs may remain to existing lines and grades if repair or reconstruction is less than a continuous 40 feet in length. In such case a no-fee permit will be issued. If 40 feet or more, the sidewalk, curb or gutter shall be laid in accordance with requirements of the Village Engineer.
Violations of this article shall commence after written notice is served, either personally or by registered mail, to the last known address of the owner, agent, builder, contractor or lessee, and such notice may be served or sent by any person designated by the Village Board of Trustees.
A. 
The grade of the gutters shall be maintained at the grade established by the Village. No ashes, cinders or other materials shall be placed in the roadway in such manner as to interfere with the proper drainage.
B. 
The grade of the ground between sidewalk and curb shall be maintained at a level to prevent the collection of water on the sidewalk.
Before delivery on the job and at such other times as the Village Manager reasonably deems necessary, the contractor shall furnish any required samples of the materials hereafter mentioned. The materials used shall pass the following requirements:
A. 
Cement shall meet the requirements of the current Standard Specifications for Portland Cement of the American Society for Testing and Materials C150-53. A sack containing 94 pounds of cement will be considered one cubic foot.
B. 
Fine aggregate.
(1) 
Fine aggregate shall consist of clean, hard, durable uncoated particles of sand, free from organic material. One hundred percent shall pass a one-fourth-inch mesh screen, 95% shall be retained on a one-hundred-mesh screen. Not more than 25% shall pass a fifty-mesh screen. It shall be well-graded from coarse to fine and shall not contain more than 5% by weight of clay or loam, none of which shall be in lumps.
(2) 
When fine aggregate is mixed with Portland cement in the proportion of one part cement to three parts fine aggregate by weight, according to the standard method of making briquettes, the resulting mortar at the age of seven and 28 days shall have a compressive strength at least equal to that developed in the same time by mortar of the same proportions and consistency made of the same cement and standard Ottawa sand.
C. 
Coarse aggregate may be broken stone or gravel. The broken stone or gravel shall be clean, hard, durable uncoated rock. It shall contain no vegetable or other deleterious matter and shall be free from soft, thin, elongated or laminated pieces. One hundred percent of the coarse aggregate shall pass a one-inch screen and at least 95% shall be retained on a one-fourth-inch screen.
A. 
All sidewalks shall be of the width and depth provided in § 196-33F, with full-cut expansion joints every 12 feet. Where a sidewalk is to be installed adjacent to existing curbs, the contractor shall take care to see that existing soil behind the curb is not disturbed. Any damage to the soil shall be repaired so that the curb shall remain static.
B. 
Forms.
(1) 
Sidewalk forms shall be of steel, interlocking type, secured with steel drive pins. Steel forms shall be straight, free of dents and other irregularities and clean. Wood forms will be permitted only upon approval by the Village Engineer and then only when of clean straight two-inch lumber with adequate means for spacing, aligning and securing.
(2) 
Wood or steel shall be held rigidly in place by stakes or braces with top edges at true line and grade given by the Engineer. Ends of the adjoining forms shall be flush.
(3) 
The forms shall be set to give the walk a slope toward the curb of 1/4 inch per foot of width.
C. 
Division plates.
(1) 
Where division plates are used they shall be of one-eighth-inch steel, as wide as the depth of the slab and as long as the width of the walk.
(2) 
Forms and division plates shall be thoroughly cleaned and oiled each time before they are used.
D. 
Subgrade.
(1) 
That portion of the ground surface directly beneath the slabs shall be called subgrade. All soft and spongy material in the subgrade shall be removed and replaced with suitable materials to provide proper drainage. Fills shall be compacted in not exceeding six inches in thickness. Areas previously compacted by traffic shall be loosened to a depth of six inches. The whole subgrade shall be thoroughly and uniformly compacted to a firm surface having a uniform bearing power.
(2) 
A template, resting upon the side forms and having its lower edge at the exact elevation of the subgrade, shall be drawn along the forms before any concrete is laid. Any high places in the subgrade shall be removed so that the template will pass over without being raised off the side forms or being tipped at an angle to the sidewalk surface.
(3) 
The subgrade shall be damp, but not muddy, when concrete is placed upon it.
E. 
Drains. Where, in the opinion of the Village Engineer, it is considered necessary to save the walk from damage by frost action, drains of four-inch tile shall be laid to the lines and grades given by the Village Engineer.
F. 
Dimensions of sidewalks.
(1) 
In residential districts, as provided for in the zoning regulations, all sidewalks must be four feet wide, and in the districts zoned as business and industrial, all sidewalks shall extend to the curb.
(2) 
Sidewalks in areas designated or zoned as business and industrial property shall be at least five inches thick. Sidewalks in all other zoned districts shall be four inches thick, except where otherwise specified.
G. 
Placing and finishing.
(1) 
Freshly mixed concrete shall be placed immediately on the prepared subgrade. It shall then be struck off and tamped with a straight-edge template, resting upon the side forms and advance with a crosswise sawing motion.
(2) 
The pouring of concrete shall not be suspended for as long as 30 minutes, except at the end of a slab.
(3) 
No concrete shall be placed on a frozen subgrade or when the temperature is or is predicted by the weather bureau to be within 24 hours below 35° F., except by permission of the Village Engineer.
H. 
Jointing.
(1) 
The walk shall be cut into separate rectangular slabs not to exceed 48 inches square.
(2) 
Where division plates have been used, they shall be removed after the concrete has hardened sufficiently to avoid breaking the edges or corners of the slabs.
(3) 
The surface edges of each slab shall be rounded to a radius of about 1/4 inch.
I. 
Expansion joints.
(1) 
A full-cut joint 1/8 to 1/4 inch wide shall be cut every 12 feet to allow for expansion. Division plates during construction of these joints must be of steel and shall be properly aligned to form a ninety-degree angle with the sidewalk forms. They shall be placed as follows:
(a) 
At or near all places where the sidewalk line intersects a curbline or other sidewalk, a one-half-inch expansion joint shall be made at right angles to the center line of the walk.
(b) 
Where the sidewalk fills the space between the curb and the building line, a one-half-inch expansion joint shall be placed between the curb and the sidewalk and between the sidewalk and the building.
(c) 
A one-half-inch expansion joint shall be made across the walk at not more than forty-foot intervals.
(2) 
The expansion joints are to be filled with bituminous material to 1/2 inch below the surface of the sidewalk. All expansion joints are to run from the subgrade to the surface of the sidewalk.
(3) 
A flagstone sidewalk can be substituted on written application to the Village Engineer.
The specifications in §§ 196-31 through 196-38 concerning terms, materials, forms, subgrades, drainage, subbase, mixing, placing, jointing and curing shall govern the construction of curbs and gutters and combined curbs and gutters, except as noted below:
A. 
Thickness.
(1) 
Curbs shall be six inches thick at the top and seven inches at the bottom and at least 18 inches deep. Gutters shall have aprons 18 inches wide and shall be at least six inches thick.
(2) 
The combined curb and gutter shall be at least six inches thick, the curb 12 inches high and the apron at least 18 inches wide and six inches thick.
(3) 
The cross section of the curbs, gutters or combined curbs and gutters shall be of a design given by the Village Engineer.
B. 
Expansion joints. Curbs, gutters and combined curbs and gutters shall be cut into sections not longer than 20 feet and shall be provided with one-half-inch expansion joints every 40 feet and where curbs start and end.
The provisions of this article, as well as the provisions concerning forms, subgrade, drainage, sub-base, mixing, placing, finishing, jointing and curing in §§ 196-31 through 196-38, shall apply to this section. Concrete driveways from the property line to the curb shall be at least six inches thick.
A. 
Proportions and materials.
(1) 
Concrete shall be proportioned from Portland cement, washed sand and coarse aggregate so as to develop a twenty-eight-day compressive strength of 2,500 pounds per square inch when tested in accordance with the American Society for Testing and Materials C39-49 standard tests.
(2) 
The Village Engineer may direct that samples of the finished work be tested, at the contractor's expense, per American Society for Testing and Materials C42-49.
(3) 
A one-part cement, two-parts sand, four-parts gravel mix, using standard gravel with a maximum water-cement ratio of 6 1/2 gallons per bag of cement, is recommended, and a maximum slump of 4 1/2 inches is permitted. It shall be the responsibility of the contractor to produce concrete of the specified strength. The work shall be protected against rain or other damage until cured.
(4) 
If concrete is mixed on the job it shall be done in an approved batch mixer for a period of not less than 1 1/2 minutes after all the materials, including water, are in the drum. No dry cement shall be sprinkled on the surface to absorb moisture or stiffen the mix. A twenty-four-hour notice for the inspection of forms shall be given prior to pouring concrete to the Village Engineer.
B. 
Mixing.
(1) 
The ingredients of the concrete shall be thoroughly mixed until each particle of fine aggregate is coated with cement and each particle of coarse aggregate is coated with mortar.
(2) 
Consistency of the mixed concrete shall be such that no separation of the ingredients takes place.
C. 
Curing.
(1) 
As soon as the concrete has set sufficiently, it shall be sprinkled and kept moist for 48 hours.
(2) 
Two-course construction is prohibited.
A. 
All concrete work shall be protected by barricades and shall not be used until sidewalks, curbs, gutters and driveways are completely finished.
B. 
All sidewalks shall be protected by barricades and shall not be used until sidewalks, curbs, gutters and driveways are completely finished and dried and the Village Engineer gives his approval, in writing, to use the same.
C. 
Uncured concrete.
(1) 
Uncured concrete shall be covered with building paper and salt hay to the thickness of eight inches or more when the United States Weather Bureau forecast indicates nighttime temperatures below 35° F.
(2) 
Admixtures will be permitted by the Village Engineer if a certified and approved admixture to concrete is used as prescribed by the American Society for Testing and Materials.
(3) 
Materials for protection of finished concrete shall be on hand prior to pouring concrete.
(4) 
Adherence to this subsection and § 196-37A and B shall not relieve the contractor of the responsibility to produce sound concrete of specified strength.
D. 
The contractor shall protect concrete from damage by rain, pedestrians and animals with suitable covers and barricades and by red lights at night.
A. 
All rubbish and materials shall be removed and the site of the work left broom clean.
B. 
A certified check payable to the Village shall be posted with the Village as a bond guaranteeing that the contractor shall remove all debris and leave the site clean. Should the contractor fail to do so, the Village may have the site cleaned and pay the costs therefor from such escrow money.