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

A01NA%~AAAA-Nf C&%ef1ANo III D4sO-
TURBANCE, UNDERMINING AND
DIGGING UNDER THE PUBLIC
HIGHWAYS, STREETS, THOR
oUGHFAREs, ALLEYS, SIDE
WALKS AND OTHER PUBLIC
PLACES IN THE CITY AND
COUNTY OF HONOLULU.
| Be it Ordained by the People Of the
City and County of Honolulu.
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, IN
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 a 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 -su-
pervisors, issue to any person or per
/ sons, firm or corporation, applying
therefor 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 a condi
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
/ turhed.
! Section 8. Before any such permit
| shall be issued by the City and County
/ Clerk the applicant therefor shall pay
| to the City and County Clerk permit
fee of $1.00. 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 effectualIy 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
lulu, with two sureties, in such sum as
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
j of every name, character and deserip-
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.
quence of any act or acts of the per
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 eonnec-
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