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ORDINANCE NO. I`/
Series of 1969
TITLE. AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO EXCAVATIONS IN THE STREETS, ALLEYS,
AND OTHER PUBLIC PLACES; REQUIRING PERMITS THEREFOR, AND PRESCRIBING
THE CONDITIONS FOR ISSUANCE OF PERMITS AND THE FEE THEREFOR.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WHEAT RIDGE,
COLORADO, THAT;
Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any electric, gas, or
communication utility operating under the jurisdiction of the State
Public Utilities Commission to enter upon the roadways owned and
maintained by the City of Wheat Ridge for the purpose of installing
any underground utility lines under any of the public roads of this
city without having complied fully with this ordinance:
A. SPECIFICATIONS
All excavations made in the City streets, roads and/or
rights-of-way shall be carefully backfilled and compacted in such a
manner that the backfill material reaches a compaction within at
least 10% to a density of that of the adjacent undisturbed soil.
The backfilling of a trench that develops undue
settlement in an improved street, road and/or rights-of-way prior to
the time of a major repaving or overlay of such street, road and/or
rights-of-way shall be completely repaired and resurfaced upon any
or all such occurrences.
Unless permanent street surface repairs are made at
the time backfill is completed, all excavations which are made in
paved streets, roads and/or rights-of-way must be temporarily repaired
by tamping or rolling into place a cold mixture of asphalt and gravel
material. Other type patching material may be used as approved by
the city engineer's office. This temporary patching material will be
removed when the permanent surface repair is made. The utility will
be responsible for having this temporary patch properly made before
it leaves the job site.
All permanent street surface repairs shall have
contraction and other cracks filled with a proper asphaltum product
upon need and not to exceed six (6) months subsequent to street
repair, and be completely sealcoated within a period of six (6)
months subsequent to the original repair.
The utility shall repair such out surfaces-in a work-
manlike manner and maintain after utility's first permanent repair
has been made, any repairs which fail to meet the workmanlike standard,
provided that utility's obligation to maintain repairs shall cease
when entire roadway width is resurfaced.
To avoid interference with rush hour traffic, the
following conditions must be observed in making cuts on through
streets, bus route streets and main thoroughfares:
(1) Only one side of the street in a block may be cut
at any time.
(2) Should operating conditions require opening the
full width of a street- at one time, advance approval
of plans opening must be obtained from the City Engineer's
Office. THE UTILITY SHALL NOTIFY THE APPROPRIATE FIRE
PROTECTION DISTRICT AND THE WHEAT RIDGE DEPARTMENT CON-
CERNING EXACT LOCATION OF STREET BARRICADES AND DATES
TRAFFIC WILL BE IMPEDED.
(3) Good practices and standard safety precautions
shall be observed. Utility will provide barricades by
day and barricades and lights by night in order to warn
and protect the public during the time that work is
being done.
B. PERMITS AND FEES
(1) Each project shall require a separate permit.
(2) The initial permit fee for any project shall be
$4.OD which shall cover the first 66D LF. Projects
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covering more than 660 LF shall carry a charge of $3.00
added to the initial permit fee for each 660 LF or
fraction thereof.
C. SUBORDINATE CONTRACTS
(1) When work is performed by an independent contractor
for the utility company, the utility company shall provide
the permit/s for all work done in the streets, roads and/or
rights-of-way of the City of Wheat Ridge, and shall be
responsible to the City of Wheat Ridge in all manners as
prescribed above.
Section 2. Nothing in this ordinance shall be interpreted to
prevent said utilities from doing emergency work on its facilities
prior to obtaining permit.
Section 3. The Utility will hold harmless the City from
liability for injury to persons or damage to property resulting from
installation of its underground structures, or from the repair or
failure to repair street surfaces as herein provided.
Section 4. Penalty Clause. Whenever in this Code or any
other ordinance or resolution of the Town or any rule or regulation
promulgated under the provisions of this Code any act is prohibited
or declared to be unlawful or any offense or a misdemeanor or the doing
of any act is required or the failure to do any act is declared to be
unlawful or any offense or a misdemeanor, where no specific penalty is
provided therefor, any person who shall be convicted of the violation
of any such provision of this Code or other ordinance or resolution
of the Town hereafter_ enacted or of such rules or regulations shall be
punished by a fine of not more than three hundred dollars ($300.00) or
by imprisonment in jail not exceeding ninety (90) days or by both such
fine and imprisonment.
Every day any violation of this Code or any other ordinances
or resolution of the Town or any rule or regulation promulgated under
the provisions of this Code shall continue shall constitute a separate
offense.
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Section 5. Emergency Clause. The provisions of this
ordinance are necessary for the immediate preservation of the public
health, safety, and welfare of the City for the following reasons:
1. No ordinance has been passed relating to excavations
in the streets, alleys and other public places and provisions of the
Colorado Revised Statutes, 1963 as amended, require said ordinance.
2. No excavation ordinance has been previously passed
because the City completed incorporation August 20, 1969, and it was
not possible to pass and adopt an ordinance of this type prior to
this time.
Section 6. Effective Date. This ordinance shall take
effect and be in force five (5) days after publication following final
passage providing it shall have been passed by an affirmative vote of
three-fourths (3/4) of the members of the City Council; otherwise said
ordinance shall take effect thirty (30) days after publication following
final passage.
INTRODUCED, PASSED, ADOPTED AND ORDERED P68LISHED AND POSTED
on first reading this -7 1 day of A. D. 1969,
by a vote of ~ to 1!5'? .
PASSED, ADOPTED AND ORDERED PUBLISHED AND POSTED on second
and final reading this day of Z2&e 225 / , A. D. 1969,
by a vote of 6' to O
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ATTEST:
A ERT E. A aSO MAYOR
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LLOUISE F. TURNER CITY CLENS
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CERTIFICATE OF POSTING
I, Louise F. Turner hereby certify that Ordinance # was
duly posted by me following first reading on the ?-Ik day of
1969, at the following locations within the City of
Wheat Ridge:
Wheat Ridge Post Office
Wheat Ridge Branch Library
Westridge Sanitation District Office
Columbia Heights School
Prospect Valley Fire Department
Wheat Ridge City Office
I, Louise F. Turner hereby certify that Ordinance # A/ was
duly posted by me following second reading on the 2/5,,f-day of
U£C~MQ£ P 1969, at the above locations within the City of
Wheat Ridge.
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J . Louise. Turner
T_ City Clerk
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