[Amended 7-9-1969, approved 7-10-1969; 6-27-1973, approved 6-28-1973; 7-25-1973, approved 7-26-1973; 9-11-1974, approved 9-12-1974; 1-24-1979, approved 1-26-1979; 7-8-1987, approved 7-9-1987; 1-9-1991, approved 1-10-1991; 5-13-2015, approved 5-15-2015; 6-10-2015, approved 6-12-2015]
No permit for street opening shall be issued by the Commissioner to any applicant therefor, except a public service corporation, until the applicant shall have first paid to the City Clerk on behalf of the City a fee of $350 as determined by the Commissioner. A public service corporation shall be charged $275 or $5.50 a running linear foot, whichever sum is greater; provided, however, that a public service corporation shall be charged $27.50 for each street opening not larger than 12 inches by six inches made pursuant to the utilization of the keyhole method for inspecting and repairing gas leaks. Said fee is to cover the cost of issuing and recording the permit and the supervision and inspection of the work done in connection therewith. No permit for a street opening shall be issued to a public service corporation by the Commissioner until a deposit in the amount of $275 or $5.50 a running linear foot, whichever sum is greater, has been paid to the City Clerk on behalf of the City, in cash or by check payable to the City of Mount Vernon.
[Amended 2-9-2005; approved 2-10-2005]
Every permittee, except a public-service corporation, shall file with the City a bond in the sum of $25,000, said bond to be approved as to form and sufficiency of surety by the Corporation Counsel and said bond to be retained as security for the faithful performance by the applicant of all terms, agreements, covenants and conditions of the permit on the applicant's part to be done and/or performed.
It shall be the duty of the permittee to give written notice to any company whose pipes, conduits or other structures are laid in the street in which any work is to be done by such permittee under the provisions of a street opening permit not less than 24 hours before commencing such opening or work; and such permittee doing such work shall, at its own expense, carefully support, maintain in operation and protect from injury such pipes, conduits or other structures and, in case of injury, shall restore same, at its own expense, to their former condition.