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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance-1969-0014 - Permits and Fees related to Excavation of Streets and Alleysof ,o BY T;UUNCILMAN k'IT-~ ~1- 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 - 2 - 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. - 3 - i . ':~7/~742 _511A/71' 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 ~L rL ATTEST: A ERT E. A aSO MAYOR ri S zo_ c- ~4~da A LLOUISE F. TURNER CITY CLENS - 4 - 0 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. A, I i, J . Louise. Turner T_ City Clerk • ,L SEAL