The municipality provides by this Part 1 for
the laying, renewing and repairing of all gas, water or other pipes
or conduits in any street before the paving, repaving or repairing
of the same, and for making the necessary house connections with said
pipes, and also for the necessary house connections and branches with
and leading into main or lateral sewers, provided that in no case,
except as a sanitary measure, of which the municipality shall be the
judge, shall Kingston require such house connections to be extended
further from such sewers or from such gas, water or other pipes or
conduits than to the inner line of the curbstone of such corporations,
persons and owners affected, and in default of compliance therewith,
cause said pipes to be laid, renewed or repaired and said connections
made, and collect the cost of paving and repairing all pipes or conduits
with interest; and the cost of the sewer connections shall be a first
lien against the land for whose benefit such connections are made.
A separate lien may be filed therefor or such sewer connection cost
may be included in any lien filed for the cost of such street improvement,
and the lien and the proceedings thereon shall be as in the case of
other municipal liens. Act of June 23, 1931, P.L. 932, XXIX, (2941).
(Renumbered 2938, and amended June 28, 1951, P.L. 662.)
The Engineer shall have the final decision for
the determination of lines and grades for street construction. This
decision shall be based on good engineering practice and municipal
standards. The determination by the Municipal Engineer shall be final.
The following depths for pipes and conduits
are assigned to the utilities operating under this Part 1:
A.
Gas main lines shall be a minimum of 30 inches below
grade. Gas service lines shall be a minimum of 18 inches below grade.
B.
Water service lines shall be a minimum of 30 inches
below grade; a water main shall be a minimum of five feet below grade.
C.
Electric lines and conduits shall be a minimum of
24 inches below grade.
D.
Telecommunication lines and conduits shall be a minimum
of 36 inches below grade.
Aerial installations of electric power transmissions
and telecommunications lines suspended from supporting poles having
their base and/or support wires within the public right-of-way and
interfering with a roadway construction, reconstruction or repair
project shall be relocated upon written order from the utility to
place its aerial facilities underground where it is deemed necessary
or desirable. Hereafter, aerial installations shall be placed subject
to approval by the Engineer. The Engineer shall assign horizontal
corridors on a case-by-case basis for all new construction. All gate
boxes, shut-off valves and other regulating devices underground for
individual customers for gas, water, steam, electric and telecommunications
lines shall be located inside the inner line of the curbstone or,
in the case where no curbing exists, to a point specified by the Engineer.
The municipality may participate in the actual
costs, less betterments of utility relocation when:
A.
An existing utility right-of-way is owned by the utility
and interferes with a municipal construction project.
B.
Utility relocation may be necessary for the installation,
maintenance or repair of municipally owned or operated utility systems,
such as the municipal sewer systems. Where the installation or modification
of municipally owned or operated utility is a part of a roadway construction
project, participation in the reimbursement for utility relocation
is expected.
A.
Upon receipt of a letter from the Engineer authorizing
the start of physical work, the utility shall commence work within
30 days unless otherwise stated by the Engineer with reasonable cause
shown in order to clear the construction area. The utility shall perform
the relocation work in accordance with the approved plan of the Engineer.
The utility shall ensure compliance with the provisions of Act 287
of 1974.
B.
Utility relocation shall be accomplished by the utility
to assure its completion prior to the commencement of roadway construction.
Areas of utility relocation of work, which cannot be accomplished
prior to the start of construction but can be accomplished simultaneously
without restricting the roadway project contractor, may be done concurrently
with the contractor's operations when approved by the Engineer and
the municipality's contractor.
C.
It is acknowledged that field conditions occasionally
necessitate revision of the utility relocation plan. It shall be the
responsibility of the utility to report and justify such revisions
and to correct any data on file with the Engineer. The utilities are
required to obtain the contractor's concurrence prior to such revisions
within the right-of-way of the project under construction. Minor modifications
of the relocation plan may be made without prior approval of the Engineer.
All such changes shall be brought to the attention of the project
engineer and shall be noted in the daily inspection report.
