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ORDINkw NO.
AN ORDINANCE REGULATING TURK ON P0LIC STREETS,
ALLEYS AND THOROUGHFARES; PROVIDING FOR A LICENSE
AND BOND AND PERMIT TO WORK ON PUBLIC STREETS;
PROVIDINGFOR REVOCATION OF' LICENSE PDR VIOLATING
THE ORDINANCE OR 11INI UM STANDARDS OF QUALITY CF
WORK: PRESCRIBING A PENALTY FOR VIOLATION THEREOF.
SECTION 1.
It shall be hereafter unlawful for any person, firm or corporation
to lay, construct, build, repair, rebuild, grade, gravel, pari:, surface,
resurface or do any work in or upon any public street, alley, or thorou h-
fare within the corporate limits of the City without first having obtained
from the Director of IAO1lic IwIorks a license to 6) such work without having
paid a license fee to the City in the annunt of One Hundred Dollars ($100.00),
having made and executed a bond to the City in the sum of Five Thousand fal-
lars ($5,000.0o) and without hawing obtained a permit from the Director of
Public Works of the City to do the specific work contemplated.
SECTION 2.
The license required by the preceding section of this ordinance shall
be issued and approved by the Director of Public Norks. Before the issuance
of same, the applicant shall file in the office of the Director of Public,
hbrks a detailed statenwnt of the apml':ulicantts qualifications, together with
a surety company bond in the amount of Five Thousand Dollars 05,000.00), con-
ditioned that the applicant will indemnify and save whole and harmless the
City from any and all darftRgea of any character arising from or caused directly
or indirectly by any negligence in the performance of such work, and for any
imperfect or inadequate work done by the applicant and further conditioned that
applicant will maintain such work in a ;food and workmanlIke manner and state
of repair for a period of two (2) years 1,raam and after Its completion and
acceptance by the City. Such statement of qualifications approved by the
Director of Public Works, together with bond, license number and date of
issuance, shall be filed by the Director of Public Works with the City Secretary.
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The applicant shall also state in his application for a license, his
place of business, the names of his aaaociates in such business and the name
and address under which the business is to be transacted. Each licensee shall
notify the Director of Public Works immediately of any and every change of
address or style of his firm. All such licenses shall be in force from the
date of issuance until revoked by the Director of Public Works as hereinafter
provided. Such license may 1�e revoked by the Director of Public Works for
violation by the licensee of any provision of this ordinance, for failure
of licensee to have an appro,ved bond in force at all times as aforesaid,
or for failure of the licensee to complete any specific work in conformity to
the plans and specifications for which any permit may be granted to licensee.
The licensee shall not permit the use of such license for any person,
other than his employees, for the purpose of doing any work covered by this
ordinance, nor shall he sub contract to any other person, firm or corporation
any work for which a license is issued to him.
In addition to the license or bond he-rein required, it shall be unlaw-
ful for any person, firm or corporation to lay, construct, build, repair, re-
build, grade, gravel, pave, surface, resurface, or do any work in or upon any
public street, alley or thoroughfare within the corporate limits of the City
without having first secured from the Director of Public Works a permit to do
the specific work contemplated. The licensee shall notify the Director of
Public Works of the date an which he intends to commence the work for which
the permit is sought.
SE'CTION 3.
This ordinance is intendecito be cumulative of other ordinances pre-
sently in existence, and is not intended to repeal any ordinance or part of
an ordinance not in direct crud express conflict herewith. This ordinance,
shall not be construed to prevent any person flria or corporation from doing
work In a public street, alley. or thoroughfare under authority of either
a cement contractor's license and bond or a plumbing license or bond.
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SECTION 4.
Any person, group of persons, firm or corporation violating any of
the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor
and punished by a. fine not to exceed Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00).
This ordinance shall take effect from and after its passage and publi-
cation as required by law.
APPROVED:
As :tin City Attorney