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<br />TUESDAY
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<br />AUGUST ll, 1959
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<br />(2) Immediately after the gas mains and pipes are installed or
<br />repaired, the tranches in which said gas mains and pipes are located shall
<br />be refilled by the Grantee. Back filling of trenches shall consist of
<br />placing earth in layers not to exceed six inches in depth with each layer
<br />thoroughly tamped with approved air or hand tampers. The material for
<br />backfilling shall be earth, free from large lumps, stones, and other
<br />objectionable matter, and shall contain only enough moisture to readily
<br />compact to the density of the original earth. Non-suitable and surplus
<br />trench naterial shall be removed by the Grantee. 'vThere necessary, tempo-
<br />rary surfacing shall be placed in such excavations as soon as the same
<br />has been backfilled. Pavement, sidewalks, curbs, gutters, or other
<br />portions of streets or public places destroyed, disturbed or damaged by
<br />such work shall be promptly restored and replaced with like materials to
<br />their former condition by the Grantee at its own expense, however, where it
<br />is necessary in order to achieve fomer condition, to use materials whose
<br />type, specifications or quantities exceed or are different than as used in
<br />the original construction or installation, then the Grantee at its own
<br />expense shall provide such different materials. Villere a cut or disturbance
<br />is made in a section of sidewalk paving, rather than replacing only the area
<br />actually cut, the Grantee shall replace the full width of the existing walk
<br />and the full length of the section or sections cut, a section being as
<br />marked by expansion joints or scoring. The restoring of the pavement, side-
<br />walks, curbs, gutters, and other portions of streets shall be done in
<br />accordance with specifications of the City, if any, and shall be subject to
<br />inspection by the City. The City Council may require the Grantee to notify,
<br />in any or all cases, the Director of Public Works, or his agent, in writing
<br />immediately after the aforesaid work has been completed. The Grantee shall
<br />maintain, repair and keep in good condition for a period of one year follow-
<br />ing such disturbance all portions of streets and alleys disturbed by it or
<br />its agents. The Grantee shall promptly remove or correct arw obstruction or
<br />defect in any street, alley, or other public place which may be caused by
<br />the Grantee or its agents in the operation or maintenance of the Granteefs
<br />prorerties. Arw such obstruction or defect which, after proper notice to the
<br />Grantee directing removal or repair as the case may be, is not properly
<br />removed, repaired, or corrected by the Grantee, shall be remedied by the City,
<br />and the costs thereof shall be charged against the Grantee and shall be paid
<br />within a period of thirty (0) days after presentation of a bill therefor.
<br />Expense of damage to, or relocation or replacement of City utility lines,
<br />sanitary sewers, storm sewers, and storm drains, where such expense results
<br />from construction or maintenance of the Granteefs lires or facilities; shall
<br />be borne by the Grantee and any expense incurred in connection therewith by
<br />the City shall be reimbursed by the Grantee.
<br />(3) The Grantee shall not open or disturb or encumber, at any om time,
<br />any more of such public streets than may, in the opinion of the Director of
<br />Public Works, be reasonably necessary to enable it to proceed with advantage
<br />in laying or repa:iring its gas mains and pipes. Neither shall the Grantee
<br />permit any such street, sidewalk, alley, highway or public place, so opened,
<br />disturbed or encumbered by it in the mstallation, construction, or repair
<br />of its gas mains or pipes, to remam open or the public way disturbed or
<br />encumbered for a longer period of time tl1an shall, in the opinion of the
<br />Director of Public Works, or other proper official of the City, be reasonably
<br />necessary. In all cases where any such highway or other public place shall
<br />be excavated, disturbed or encumbered by the Grantee, the Grantee shall take
<br />all precautions necessary or proper for the protection of the public and shall
<br />maintain adequate warning signs, barricades, signals, and other devices
<br />necessary or proper to adequately give notice and warning to the public of the
<br />existence of all actual conditions present.
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