Title 12 STREETS, SIDEWALKS AND PUBLIC PLACES
Chapter 12.32 EXCAVATIONS
12.32.030 Permit-Issuance.
No such permit shall be issued unless and until the applicant
therefor has filed with the city clerk a bond in the sum of five thousand
dollars conditioned to indemnify the city for any loss, liability, or damage
that may result or accrue from or because of the making, existence, or manner of
guarding or constructing any such tunnel or excavation. Such bond shall be
further conditioned to fill up, restore, and place in good and safe condition as
near as can be its original condition and to the satisfaction of the
superintendent of public works, all openings and excavations made in streets,
alleys, sidewalks, and other public grounds and to maintain any street, alley,
sidewalk, or other public grounds where excavation is made in as good condition
for a period of twelve months after the work has been done, usual wear and tear
excepted, as it was before such work shall have been done, if the backfill for
such excavation is mechanically compacted by accepted methods, or if not so
compacted, then to maintain the same for a period of twenty-four months in such
good condition. (Ord. 280 § 3, 1969)