The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-06-07

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All sums to be paid by any person, persons
or corporations Tor license or permit shall be
paid to the city treasurer. taking his receipt
clerk of the board of public works, before he
shall deitv er the same, and the receipt for any
permit shall be recorded by the city engineer
before he shall deliver the same.
Section provides that no person or persons,
corporations, contractors or their employees
shall make or cause any excavation to be
made in any street, sidewalk, alley or other
public grounds without a permit from the
city engineer. The applicant must leave the
street in as good condition as he found IL. He
shall at all times keep the place properly
guarded by day and lighted by night with red
lights, 80 as to prevent accidents. The city lie
to be saved from any suits, damages, costs or
charges that may occur from the applicants
use OF the street, sidewalk, alley or other pub
lie grounds.
Section 2. All applicants for permits shall
state the character and location OF the work,
and that the applicant will in every particular
conform to all the provisions of this and all
other ordinances of the city in regard to
streets, alleys and public grounds.
Section provides that before the city en-
gineer shall grant any permit to excavate in
any paved or macadamized street he shall re-
quire the applicant to pay the sum OF three
of experimenting the proper refiillng OF said
excavation. The party excavating, when
ready to refill shall notify the city engineer
not more than six inches in depth, and each
yer. wetted and rammed to prevent after
settlement.
Section 4. 1t shall be the duty of the city
engineer to keep record of all perm its issued
under this ordinance.
Sections and provide that the Gas Light
Co., before excavating for the purpose of lay
Ing any pipe or to make house connections or
repairs, shall notify the city engineer in writ
ing of such excavation and for what purpose,
with an exact diagram of the proposed work
ground. and when completed shall leave the
latter in as good condition as at first.
Section provides that If the Gas Light Co.
does not leave the street, etc., in as good con-
dition as found. the city engineer shall give
the company "a hours to do so and then shall
do the repairing and charge the company
twice as much as the work costs, which shall
be deducted from the company's gas bill.
Sec. provides that the Gas Light Co. shall
place any streets macadamized or surfaced
with gravel in as good condition as before
making excavation, under the supervision of
the city engineer.
Section provides that the Gas Light Co.
shall haveix1O deducted from its gas bill for a
failure to serve upon the city engineer the mo-
tice provided for in section 5. Telegraph,
telephone, electric light or other companies
having authority to place poles in the streets
when IL Is necessary to disturb any SIDEWALKS
gineer, who shall see that 1t is properly done
IL not properly done the engineer shall, after
"a hours notice, cause the poles to be removed
charge the company with double the cost
which shall be paid before the company shall
be granted permission to place any other poles
in the streets.
Section 10. Any person or persons violating
any of the provisions OF these regulations, OF
neglecting or refusing to comply with any OF
the conditions Of any license which has been
issued to him or them, shall, on conviction
thereof, forfeit and pay fine of not less than
ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars in &C
cordance with the provisions of section five OF
chapter nine of title one, of the city charter
In such case made and provided.
RULES REGULATING SEWER AND PAVING
CONNECTIONS.
1. No connection shall be made with any
sewer or drain or water main except by per
sons regularly licensed to perform that dis
or
the city OF Mankato, twenty-one years old
and at the time Of application furnish the
board of public works with satisfactory evil
dence that he is person skilled in the busl-
ness and qualified TO receive a license.
2. No person licensed to make such connec
| lions with sewers, water mains, etc., shall al
low his name to be used by any other person
either for the purpose of obtaining permits
| or doing any work, under the license; and
every person licensed shall have recorded
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acted, and shall immediately notify the city
engineer Of any change.
| .. NO cOnnectlOn small De made with any
sewer or water main without the written per
| mission Of the city engineer, and any opening
or connection made into any sewer or water
main without such permission, or in any man
ner different from the mode prescribed fol
| such opening or connection by these regula
lions, shall subject the person making the
same and the occupant or owner of the prem
ises directing II, each or either of them to q
penalty of not less than ten dollars for eaci
| and every day said connection or opening
shall remain after notice by. the city en-
gineer to close and disconnect tina same.
4. The authority OF the drain layer to LAY
/ the pipe extends from the sewer to within
four feet OF the building to be constructed
All work from this point must be done by q
licensed plumber,
5. Should water, gas or other pipes or drain
be encountered In the direct line of hous,
drain during its construction, the question O
carrying such drain under, over or arount
such or similar distractions, or of doing any
thing involving a diviation from the prope
line or standard grade, can only be decided b,
the city engineer.
/ 6. No exhaust from steam engines shall b,
connected with the public sewer or privat,
drains and no blow-oR from steam boilers car
be so conducted without special permission
from the city engineer.
| Z. All drains which enter into any publ,
sewer or drain in any street or highway, shall
be built of such size and material and in sucl
direction and with such grades and in sucl
manner as the city engineer may direct, in &C
cordance with. the rules accompanying tn
permit.
g. Privy vaults can only be connected witt
sewers through Intervening receiving basins
and the outlet pipes from all such vaults mus
not be less than three feet above their bot
toms, so as to retain all solid matter and pre-
vent anything but the liquid contents of tn
vault from passing into the drainage pipe
and receiving basins.