§ 12.24.060. Prohibited acts and exceptions for emergency.

A.

No person shall do or perform, or cause the doing or performing of any, of any number of, or all of the following, until and unless he has filed with the engineer a written application, and secured from the engineer a permit therefor, and until and unless he has complied with all of the conditions and regulations of this chapter applicable thereto, except as hereinafter provided in subsection B of this section:

1.

Make any excavation, tunnel or bore in or under the surface of any street;

2.

Construct, erect, place or repair any facility or equipment in, upon, along, across, under or over any street, or remove any facility or equipment from any street;

3.

Repair, construct, reconstruct, erect or make any street betterment in, upon, along, across, under or over any street or remove any street betterment from any street when such work is done or performed by or at the instance and request of the owner of the real property abutting the street where such street betterment is to be repaired, constructed, reconstructed, erected or made or removed;

4.

Destroy or remove any street improvement in, upon, along, across, under or over any street;

5.

Construct, leave, place or maintain any obstruction in, upon, along, across or over any street;

6.

Drive or operate a vehicle over any curb or sidewalk located upon any street at a point other than where a driveway has been constructed.

B.

1.

Subsection A of this section shall not apply in case of emergency when it is necessary for the preservation of life or property to do work immediately in, upon, along, across, under or over any street in the city, provided that the person doing such work files a statement of the necessity therefor, a drawing or plat as required by said subsection A and makes a deposit as required by Section 12.24.120 with the engineer within 8 hours after beginning said work, or within 4 hours after the office of the engineer is first open subsequent to beginning said work.

2.

A department of the city shall not be required to make application for or secure a permit from the engineer to construct, erect, place or repair a pole, pole line, tower, crossarm or bracket, transformer, conduit, junction box, wire, meter, meter box, valve, valve box, in, upon, along, across, under or over a street of the city or remove the same from a street of the city when the work does not interfere with, disturb, destroy or remove any street improvement.

3.

Any person operating under a franchise granted by the city and holding an annual blanket permit, shall not be required to make application for or secure a permit from the engineer to place or repair any facility or equipment when such placing or repairing does not interfere with, disturb, destroy or remove any street improvement, or involve the making of any excavation in or below the surface of a street.

4.

The owner of real property abutting the street shall not be required to have a permit in connection with work defined under paragraph 4 of subsection I of Section 12.24.020, provided that the work shall in all other respects meet all specifications required by the city engineer and superintendent of streets. Nothing herein shall authorize a contractor or any other person who is not the owner of abutting real property to perform the said activities without first securing a permit as required by this chapter.

(Ord. 4876 § 2, 1968; Ord. 3447 § 1, 1938; Ord. 3387 § 2, 1937)