Chapter 15.40

CONSTRUCTION SITE REGULATIONS

Article I Use of Public Property

Sections:

15.40.010 Liability insurance. 15.40.020 Consent of traffic engineer. 15.40.030 Lighting requirements.

Article II Proper Maintenance of Job Site

Sections: 15.40.040 Control of garbage, rubbish and waste matter.

15.40.050 Control of dust and mud.

15.40.060 Stop work orders.

Article I Use of Public Property

Every permittee hereunder who uses any public property for the purpose of storing materials, use of equipment, erection of pedestrian walkways, and canopies, or erection of barricades or other structures, under a permit to build, alter, remodel, or enlarge a building or structure and every permittee engaged in the work of moving, wrecking, razing, or demolishing a building or structure, shall be covered by unconditional public liability insurance for not less than the following sums:

A. For the injury or death to any one person in any one accident subject to the limit of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00) for each person injured or killed in an accident: one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00);

• B. For the injury or death to two or more persons in any one accident: three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000.00);

C. For the damage or destruction of property in any one accident: twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000.00).

No permit to engage in any work covered by this code shall be issued or valid until the permittee shall have furnished to the city controller a "certificate of insurance" for each policy required hereunder, executed by the company issuing such policy, and approved as to form by the city attorney. Such policies shall contain a provision which includes the city as one of the insured and holding the city, its officers and employees harmless from any and all claims for negligence by reason of granting permission to use such public property. Such insurance policies shall contain an endorsement that the company issuing such policy or policies will not allow the same to be canceled without serving, by first class mail, ten (10) days notice of cancellation upon the city clerk. The failure of the permittee to carry such policy or policies in force and to properly renew said insurance during the time between the issuance of the permit for work to be done and the completion of the work covered by such permit shall automatically revoke the permit as of the date of expiration of such insurance policy or policies. A payment of the full amount of the original permit fee shall be made to the city before any such revoked permit may be reinstated or a permit for other work issued. (Prior code § 9.08.370)

Prior approval for the use of public streets, sidewalks or alleys for any of the purposes indicated in Section 15.40.010 of this chapter shall be obtained from the traffic engineer. The traffic engineer shall enforce the provisions of this code pertaining to temporary use of public property and to the maintenance of walkways and barricades. The traffic engineer may prohibit the use of any or all of the portions of streets, sidewalks, or alleys permitted to be used by this code when, in his or her opinion, undue traffic hazards or congestion may be created by such use. The traffic engineer may waive the requirements of sidewalk protection if he or she permits the closing of the sidewalk to pedestrian traffic. (Prior code § 9.08.371)

All canopies and walkways shall be provided with the equivalent of not less than one hundred (100) watt electric lights which shall be located not more than twenty-five (25) feet apart and shall adequately light the entire length of the canopy or walkway and connecting ramps to the sidewalk.

When a canopy or walkway is located in or on the public street or alley or located near enough to the edge of the curb to be a hazard to vehicles, red warning lights of not less than one hundred (100) watts shall be placed at each end of the canopy or walkway and additional red lights spaced so that there is not more than fifty (50) feet between such warning lights. Such lights shall be placed on the street side of the canopy or walkway. (Prior code § 9.08.372)