The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-09-10

Section l. No person or persons, firm
or corporation shall, in any manner or
for any purpose, break up, dig up, dis
turb, undermine, or dig under, or cause
to be broken up, dug up, disturbed, I'M
| dermined, or dug under, any public
+! highway, street, thoroughfare, alley or
| sidewalk, or any other public place in
the City and County of Honolulu, with
out having first obtained written per-
nit therefor from the City and County
| Clerk.
Section 2. The City and County
| Clerk shall on the recommendation of
the City and County Engineer or Road
Overseer of the appropriate district, or
when so directed by the Board of SUI
pervisors, issue to any person or per-
sons, firm or corporation, applying
therefor a permit, limited in time, to
break up, dig up, disturb, undermine or
dig under any public highway, street,
thoroughfare, alley, or sidewalk, or
other public place in the City and
! County of Honolulu, as designated in
such recommendation Of the City and
County Engineer or Road Overseer;
Provided, that if any person or persons,
firm or corporation desires such permit
for the purpose of laying underground
wires for any telegraph, telephone or
signal system the application for such
| permit shall be made direct to the
Board of Supervisors, and as eondi-
ton to the granting of such permit the
Board of Supervisors may require such
person or persons, firm or corporation
to furnish to the City and County of
Honolulu, and place in position, conduit
facilities for the laying underground
by the City and County of Honolulu Of
wires for any police and fire alarm sys-
tenn or for any signal system for use
by the City and County of Honolulu.
A separate permit shall be required for
each place to be excavated or dis
turbed.
| Section g. Before any such permit
shall be issued by the City and County
Clerk the applicant therefor shall pay
to the City and County Clerk a permit
fee of $1.oo. All permit fees collected
by the City and County Clerk under
the provisions Of this Ordinance shall
be turned over to the City and County
Treasurer, at the end of each and every
month.
Section 4. The person or persons,
firm or corporation to whom such per-
nit has issued shall place sufficient red
lights on or near the work covered by
such permit, and keep them burning
from twilight to sunrise, shall erect
suitable ratings, barriers or protection
about all open trenches, shall provide
all necessary watchmen on the work by
day and night, and shall take such other
precautions as may be necessary and
proper for the safety and protection of
the public, and as will effectually pre-
vent any accident in consequence of
/ the work done under such permit.
Section 5. Whenever required by the
City and County Engineer or Road
Overseer, any person or persons, firm
or corporation applying for such per-
nit shall, before such permit is issued,
file with the City and County Clerk a
bond, to the City and County of Homo
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may be designated by said City and
| County Engineer or Road Overseer. The
condition of such bond shall be to in
demnify and save harmless the City and
County of Honolulu, and the officers
and agents thereof, from all claims,
demands, suits, actions or proceedings
of every name, character and descrip-
ton which may be brought against said
City and County Of Honolulu, or any
officer or agent thereof, for or on ac-
| count of any injuries or damages to any
person or persons, or property, received
or sustained by any person or persons,
| firm or corporation, by or in conse-
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son to whom such permit is issued. or
his agents or servants in or about the
work covered by such permit, or by or
on account of any accident in connec-
ton Herewith, or by or on account of
any violation of any of the provisions
of this Ordinance by the person to
whom such permit is issued, or by his
agents or servants, and to pay to the
City and County of Honolulu any pen
| atty recovered against the person to
whom such permit is issued or his
agents or servants for any violation of
the provisions of this Ordinance and
any expense which may have been in
Cured by the City and County of Homo
lulu by reason of any violation hereof
| by such person, or by his agents or SER
] wants. Sureties on such bonds shall
severaily qualify before the CITY and
| County Clerk In the amount of the
penal sum specified therein. In lieu
OF the bond above provided, the bond
OF a surety company authorized under
the laws OF the United States to become
surety on bonds of public officers, and