West Covina Municipal Code § 19-151 Definition

The term "improvement," as used in this article, shall be deemed and is hereby declared to include the grading or regrading, the macadamizing or remacadamizing, the graveling or regraveling, the oiling or reoiling, and the paving or repaving of any street, or the construction or reconstruction, in any street, of sidewalks, crosswalks, driveways, curbs, gutters and the construction over gutters of entrances to driveways.

(Code 1960, § 7101)

Cross reference— Definitions for Code generally, §§ 1-8—1-26.

Improvements shall be made under the direction and to the satisfaction of the city engineer, and all work shall, during its progress and on its completion, conform to the lines and levels which may be from time to time established by the city engineer.

(Code 1960, § 7104)

The city engineer shall be given at least twenty-four (24) hours notice of the time of commencement of the work of making any improvement, permission to make which is granted under this article, in order that he may procure and assign an inspector to inspect the same; and such work shall not be commenced until after such notice has been given. The city engineer may provide such inspection on shorter notice if inspection personnel are readily available.

(Code 1960, § 7107)

It shall be the duty of the city engineer to cause improvements made by or under private contract or individually to be duly inspected during the progress of the work thereon and otherwise to carry out the provisions of this article. The city engineer shall also be the street superintendent of the city.

(Code 1960, § 7108)

Every person who owns, uses, controls or has an interest in, any pipes, pipelines, conduits, ducts, tunnels, or conveyor systems under or beneath the surface of any public street, alley, sidewalk, or other public place, which pipes, pipelines, conduits, ducts, tunnels or conveyor systems shall be used or provided for the purpose of supplying or conveying gas, oil, petroleum products, hydro-carbons, ammonia, water, steam, heat, sewerage, discharge of wastes, electricity, or communication circuits, in, to, or from the city, or to or from any place situated within the city, or for any other similar purposes, shall file in the office of the city engineer a map or set of maps, each drawn to a scale of not less than two hundred (200) feet to one (1) inch, which map or maps shall show the exact location, size, and description of such pipes, pipelines, conduits, ducts, tunnels, or conveyor systems, together with all mains, laterals, services, and service pipes, valves, pressure regulators, traps, vents, manholes, hand-holes, transformer chambers, or other appliances, installed beneath the surface of the public streets, alleys, sidewalks, or other public places in the city belonging to, used by, or under control of such person, or in which such person has an interest, together with the date of installation of such improvement, as hereinabove set forth, if such date of installation is known.

(Code 1960, § 7109)

Every person owning, using, controlling, or having an interest in any pipes, pipelines, conduits, ducts, tunnels, or conveyor systems, under or beneath the surface of any public streets, alleys, sidewalks, or other public place, which pipes, pipelines, conduits, ducts, tunnels or conveyor systems shall be used or provided for the purpose of supplying or conveying gas, oil, petroleum products, hydrocarbons, ammonia, water, steam, heat, sewerage, discharge of wastes, electricity, communication circuits in, to, or from the city, or to or from any place situated within the city, or for any other similar purpose, shall file, on or before the fifteenth day of each and every January, a corrected map or set of maps, each drawn to a scale of not less than two hundred (200) feet to one (1) inch, showing the complete installation of all pipe, pipelines, conduits, ducts, tunnels or conveyor systems, including all mains, laterals, services, service pipes, vents, valves, pressure regulators, traps, manholes, hand-holes, transformer chambers, or other appliances installed under or beneath the surface of the public streets, alleys, sidewalks, or other public places in the city belonging to, used by, or under the control of such person, or in which such person has an interest; and such map or set of maps shall include all installations made during the previous year, to and including the last day of each such year.

(Code 1960, § 7110)

Each map or set of maps filed pursuant to this article shall be accompanied by an affidavit endorsed thereon, subscribed and sworn to by such person, or by a member of such firm, or president or secretary of such corporation, to the effect that such map or set of maps correctly exhibits the details required by this article to be shown thereon.

(Code 1960, § 7111)

In the event that any person shall have filed a map or set of maps in compliance with section 19-155, and shall find, at the last day of any year subsequent thereto that no additional pipes, pipelines, conduits, ducts, tunnels, or conveyor systems, including any mains, laterals, services, service pipes, vents, valves, pressure regulators, traps, manholes, hand-holes, transformer chambers, or other appliances, shall have been installed during such year, then such person shall not be required to file a new map or set of maps, as set forth in section 19-156, but it shall be sufficient if such person, on or before the fifteenth day of January thereafter, shall file an affidavit with the city engineer referring to such map or set of maps as shall be on file therein, and stating that such map or set of maps truly represents the pipes, pipelines, conduits, ducts, tunnels, or conveyor systems of the party submitting such affidavit.

(Code 1960, § 7112)

Whenever any pipe, pipelines, conduits, ducts, tunnels, or conveyor systems, or other structures located beneath or under the surface of any public street, alley, sidewalk or other public place, or the use thereof, is abandoned, the person owning, using, or having an interest therein, shall, within thirty (30) days after such abandonment, file in the office of the city engineer a statement in writing, giving in detail the location of the pipes, pipelines, conduits, ducts, tunnels, or conveyor systems, or other structures so abandoned. Each map or set of maps filed pursuant to the provisions of this article shall show in detail the location of all such pipes, pipelines, conduits, ducts, tunnels, or other structures abandoned subsequent to the filing of the last preceding map or set of maps.

(Code 1960, § 7112.1)