ORDINANCE NO. 1087

 

AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 4 OF CHAPTER 78 OF THE 1953 COMPILED ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF GRAND JUNCTION, COLORADO,

CONCERNING EXCAVATIONS IN STREETS AND ALLEYS WITHIN THE CITY OF GRAND JUNCTION, AND PROVIDING FOR CHARGES THEREFOR

 

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF THE CITY OF GRAND JUNCTION, COLORADO:

 

That Section 4 of Chapter 78 of the 1953 Compiled Ordinances of the City of Grand Junction be amended to read as follows:

 

Section 4. EXCAVATING IN STREETS AND ALLEYS PROHIBITED WITHOUT PERMITS.

 

a. No person, firm or corporation, shall make any excavation in any street or alley within the City of Grand Junction unless he shall first have obtained permission therefor from the City Engineer.

 

b. The City Engineer shall measure all such excavations; and at the end of each month, bills shall be rendered to the various excavators or utility companies to cover the cost to the City of replacing the surface of the street or alley over all such excavations made during the preceding month. Such charges shall be computed on the basis of the area of the surface cut and shall be as follows:

 

 

 

 

 

(1)

Gravel surface

$ .20 per square foot

 

(2)

Road mix oil

$ .60 per square foot

 

(3)

Plant mix oil

$1.00 per square foot

 

(4)

Concrete

$3.00 per square foot

 

 

 

c. The excavator shall be required to compact the trench or excavation to grade according to the specifications of the City Engineer.

 

d. Statements shall be sent from the office of the City Auditor monthly; and all such accounts shall be due and payable within thirty (30) days after the month for which they were billed, and shall be payable at the office of the City Treasurer at the City Hall in Grand Junction.

 

PASSED AND ADOPTED this 7th day of October, 1959.

 

/s/William W. Orr

President of the City Council

 

ATTEST:

 

/s/Helen C. Tomlinson

City Clerk

 

I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance, being Ordinance No. 1087 was introduced, read and ordered published by the City Council of the City of Grand Junction, Colorado, at a regular meeting of said body held on the 16th day of September, 1959, and that the same was published in The Daily Sentinel, a newspaper published and in general circulation in said City at least ten days before its final passage.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of said City, this 8th day of October, 1959.

 

/s/Helen C. Tomlinson

City Clerk

 

Published Sept. 19, 1959

Last Publication Oct. 9, 1959