Glenn County Municipal Code § 15.69 Encroachments/Excavations

It is unlawful for any person making any excavation in any public street or public place, not to maintain safe crossings for vehicle traffic at all street intersections, or not to provide free access to all fire hydrants and water gates, and not to maintain all gutters free and unobstructed, or not to place and maintain barriers at each end of such excavation and at such places as may be necessary along the excavation to prevent accidents, or also not to place and maintain lights at each end of such excavation and at distances of not more than fifty feet along the line thereof, from sunset each day to sunrise of the next day, until such excavation is entirely refilled. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

All surplus materials removed under the provisions of this chapter shall, if required by him or her, be delivered to such points as the road commissioner shall direct. (Ord. 1269 § 10, 2018; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

After excavating is commenced, the work of making and refilling the same shall be prosecuted with due diligence and so as not to obstruct the street or other public place or travel thereon more than is necessary therefore. If the work is not so prosecuted or if the work of refilling does not, in the judgment of the road commissioner, comply with the terms of this chapter, the road commissioner shall notify the person, firm, or corporation named in the permit that the work is not being prosecuted with due diligence or that the refilling of such excavation has not been properly done, and shall require such person within five days after the service of such notice to proceed with the diligent prosecution of such work. Such notice shall be in writing or printed. If such notice is not complied with, the road commissioner shall do such work as may be necessary to refill the excavation and to restore the street or other public place, or part thereof excavated, to as good a condition as the same was in before such excavation was made, the cost of same to be paid by the party to whom the permit was given or deducted from the cash deposited or collected from the bond given. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

The county shall pay the cost of restoration, out of the money deposited as required by Section 15.12.010. If in lieu of cash deposits a general deposit bond has been filed as provided in Section 15.69.090, an action at law shall be commenced and prosecuted in the name of the county upon the bond for the recovery of such damages as may have accrued to the county, by reason of the failure to fulfill the conditions thereof. The cash deposits shall be retained by the commissioner for a period of one year from the completion of the replacement, and at that time on demand the deposits, less the deductions made pursuant to this chapter, if any, shall be returned to the person, firm or corporation making the same or to his or her heirs or assigns. (Ord. 1269 § 10, 2018; Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

All excavations, refilling of excavations and repairing of street surfaces, pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall be made under the supervision and direction of the road commissioner. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

It is the duty of every person, firm or corporation owning, using or controlling an interest in pipes, conduits, ducts or tunnels under the surface of any public street, alley, sidewalk or other public place in the county for supplying or conveying gas, electricity, water, steam, ammonia, oil, or similar substances in, to or from the county, or to or from its inhabitants or for any other purpose, within ninety days after May 2, 1955, to file in the office of the road commissioner a map or a set of maps, each drawn to a scale or not less than two hundred feet to one inch, which map or set of maps shall show in detail the exact location, size, description and date of installation, if known, of all mains, laterals, services and service pipes, manholes, transformers or other appliances installed beneath the surface of the public streets, alleys, sidewalks, or other public places in the county belonging to, used by or under the control of such person, firm or corporation, and to file within fifteen days after the first day of January of each and every year, a corrected map, or set of maps, each drawn to a scale of not less than two hundred feet to one inch, showing the complete installation of all such pipes and other appliances made during the previous year. Each such map shall be accompanied by an affidavit endorsed thereon subscribed and sworn to by such person or by the president or secretary of such corporation to the effect that the same correctly exhibits the details required by this chapter to be shown thereon. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

This chapter shall not apply to any persons, firm or corporation doing work under contract awarded by the board or to work performed under any special act of the legislature of the state of California. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

All materials taken up or removed in pursuance of this chapter shall be replaced in accordance with the specifications for the concreting, macadamizing, graveling or other improving of the street, as the same was at the time it was torn up, loosened or disturbed, and when pipes are laid the filling of trenches shall be thoroughly tamped and wet down. The surface dressing shall be rolled or tamped so as to leave no ridge in the paved street. The person or company so removing the surface dressing shall at any time within one year after replacing the same on demand of the road commissioner, repeat the work of refitting the concreting or macadamizing and do all filling that may be necessary to raise any sunken part of the street above the pipes to the proper grade. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

Any person, firm or corporation, intending to make excavations in public highways or other public places in the county may execute and deliver to the road commissioner a general bond payable to the county, in the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars, with two good and sufficient sureties, which bond shall be used for the same purpose as special deposits provided for in Section 15.12.010. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)

All water, electric and gas pipes and conduits, gas pipes and other pipes to be laid in the county shall be laid in conformity with this chapter and the lines determined by the road commissioner. (Ord. 1183 § 2, 2006)