Permit to excavate, perform work on, place building material or structure on streets, sidewalks; indemnification of city—Required.
Meridian Code of Ordinances § 20-8
in effectSec. 20-8. - Permit to excavate, perform work on, place building material or structure on streets, sidewalks; indemnification of city—Required.
(a) Every person desiring to make excavation in any street, alley or avenue in the city, or to perform work upon any such sidewalk, curb, gutter or paving therein, or to pile any building material or erect any structure therein shall before so doing obtain from the director of public works a permit so to do. Every person obtaining such permit shall by the acceptance thereof become bound and obligated to the city to save it harmless on account of all injury to persons or property or any injury to any pavement, curb, sidewalk or gutter occasioned by any such excavation or work in the streets, alleys and avenues, the piling of building material or erecting of structures therein.
(b) Before such a permit is granted therefor, such person shall deposit with the city clerk a sum of money as, in the judgment of the director of public works, shall be sufficient to cover the costs of replacing permanent pavement or improvement, the surplus, if any, to be returned when the work is completed.
(c) Every such permit issued by the director of public works shall be executed in duplicate and shall be signed by the director of public works and also by the person obtaining the same. Immediately upon the execution of the permit and the bond, as required in the following section, the director of public works shall deliver the duplicate permit to the applicant.
(Code 1962, § 20-6)
Source: City of Meridian, Mississippi, Code of Ordinances (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/ms/meridian/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=COOR_CH20STSI_ARTIINGE_S20-8PEEXPEWOPLBUMASTSTSIINCIEQFetched: 11/1/2026