Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-09-09
WATT, SHAND { CO.,
8 g. 10 E. KING STREET.
A n ORDINANCES

OKDlNANCE
To provide against injuries to the roadway, in
the streets and alleys of the city OF Lancas-
cavatiOns and diggings therein.
SECTION l. &c II ordained by the Select and
Common Councils of the City of Lancaster,
that from and after the passage of this Or(li-
nance. no person or persons whatsoever shall
streets or alleys of the City OF Lancaster, for
laying water, gas or sewer pipes, or making
connections with or repairs to the same, or
for any other purpose whatsoever. without
having first obtained a permit tor so doing
from the Mayor of said City.
SEC. 2. That any person or persons digging
or excavating in any of the said streets or
alleys. by virtue OF any such permit, shall be
required, on filling in such excavation Or dig
ging, to ram or puddle tho earth filled in, and
snail remove any surplus or supply any DELI
cheney OF material as may he necessary to leave
the roadway even and solid, and In as good
condition as IL was before such digging, and
shall keep such part of the roadway In repair
for the period OF six months. In case any ex-
cavatiOn remain open over night the person
making the same shall display a red light ~ a
SEC ;. That in case OF default on tho part of
any person Or persons making such eJcava
tion, or digging, to M up the same in tho man
siOner shall give notice to the person or per-
sons at whose instance or for whose benefit
such excavation or digging was made OF the de-
fault, and If such person or persons shall re-
fuse or neglect for two days after being so no
titled. to repair the roadway, in the manner
required by Section 2, then the Street Commis-
siOner shall make such repairs, at the expense
OF the said person or persons for whose benefit;
or ut whose instance, the excavation or dig
@ sossther with % penn penalty W Of e1 twenty per cent.
shall be recoverable, in an action of deEt, at
the suit OF the City of Lancaster, as debts of
like amount are now recoverable.
SEC 1. That in all cases OF contracts entered
into by any OF the departments OF tho govern
OF said City, with any, person or persons, for
vation in the roadway, in any Of the Streets or
alleys of said City. the contractor shall be
bound by recognizance to repair said road
and no final estimate for any such work shall
the contractor shall have produced certiti,
cate from the Street Commissioner that Sec
tion has been fully complied with.
up tho roadway, in any OF the streets or alleys
permit provided for in section shall be liable
to penalty of flfty dollars. to be collected in
an action Of debt, in the name of the City OF
SEC. 6. 1t shall be the duty OF the Mayor Of
the City to procure, at the expense OF the City,
printed blank forms of such permits, and to
fill and issue the same, on personal applica
tion agreeably to the first section OF this Ordi
nance ana also to retain q list of every permit
| issued, with the number and date thereof, the
location of the proposed excavation or digging
and the name of the person or persons, for
whose benefit or at whose instance the same
| Is to be done.
Ordained and enacted into law, at the city
| OF Lancaster, on the 7th day OF September, A.
JOHN LEvEkGOOD.
President Common Council.
HERBERT JOHNSTON,
| Clerk OF Colamon Council.
| ROBERT A. EVANS,
President Select Council
j. X. BARR,
| Clerk OF Select Council.
Approved September ., lsSL.
| JNO, TseAnGONIGLE,
sept93td x Mayor.