§ 645-607 — Sidewalks

Sec. 645-607. - Sidewalks.

(a) No person shall remove, construct, reconstruct, establish, alter or repair any sidewalk within the city under a private contract, without first obtaining a permit therefor from the division of construction and business services and paying the required fees, as authorized by this Code. Any person desiring a permit required by this subsection shall first submit plans and specifications therefor to the division of construction and business services, who may either approve the plans and specifications or require them to be altered, after which the owner or contractor shall apply to the division of construction and business services for the permit for such work. (b) A performance and maintenance bond, as required for excavations in streets, shall be required of any person doing such work, and he or she shall agree to indemnify the city and all other persons, as required for street improvements. In all instances, the division of construction and business services may require such permittee to carry a sufficient public liability insurance policy in such amount as it determines to be necessary to protect the public, as a condition to issuing any permit under subsection (a). (c) No sidewalk shall be constructed, reconstructed, altered or repaired so as to prevent free and unobstructed passage thereon for any longer than necessary, or in such manner as to interfere with the proper drainage and grading of the street. (d) All such work shall be subject to the approval of the division of construction and business services after consultation with the engineering division of the department of public works, and to further orders thereon. All matters of procedure pertaining thereto, as now or at any time provided for by statute, shall be followed so far as applicable, and are hereby adopted by this reference thereto as a part of this subsection, to continue, in the event any such statutes should be amended or repealed without continuing such or similar provisions. (e) Any person causing a sidewalk to be built, constructed, reconstructed, altered, repaired or used contrary to such plans and specifications, as approved, or in violation of any provision of this chapter, or of state law, upon conviction therefor, may be fined as provided generally for violations of this Code; also, such work may be ordered to be suspended and to be constructed or reconstructed at such person's expense.

(Code 1975, § 28-282; G.O. 15, 2001, § 117; G.O. 3, 2002, § 38; G.O. § 63, 2009, § 80; G.O. 41, 2016, § 2)