§ 21-192. Certificate of underground hazard insurance as alternative.

(a)

Plumbers and drainlayers doing business in the city and all telephone companies, telegraph companies, electric light and power companies, gas companies, and all other persons or companies engaged in any business or line of work necessitating the continuous making of excavations in the public streets, alleys, sidewalks, the other public ways of the city or the removal of any guttering or curbing, shall execute and deliver to the city engineer a certificate of underground hazard insurance to be filed in the city engineer's office. Every effort shall be made by the aforementioned persons and companies to restore all sidewalks, curbs, paving and guttering, and all streets, alleys and other public ways in a careful and efficient manner to be as good and sound a condition as the same were at the time the excavation was made or any material moved therefrom.

(b)

If any plumbers, drainlayers, telephone companies, telegraph companies, electric light and power companies, gas companies, and all other persons or companies who have been issued an excavation permit fail to restore streets, sidewalks, curbing, guttering or any other public ways to the satisfaction of the street commissioner, the street commissioner shall order the restoration of public ways by the city street department, with the cost of the restoration to be billed to the plumbers, drainlayers, or companies or others listed on the certificate of underground hazard insurance on file in the office of the city engineer.

(Ord. No. 6175, § I, 2-28-89)

Cross reference

Carthage Water and Electric requirements relative to construction of water service pipelines, § 6-204.