[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Commissioners (now City Council)
of the City of Brigantine as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted
where applicable.]
[Adopted 3-3-1982 by Ord.
No. 12-1982]
A.
No person or corporation shall install or alter sidewalks,
driveways and/or curbing in the right-of-way of any street and/or public areas
without having first obtained and being in possession of a valid permit to
do so, issued by the City Engineer's office pursuant to the provisions of
this article.
B.
Any such permit may be revoked at any time by the City
Engineer and/or the Commissioners of the City of Brigantine, New Jersey.
C.
No certificate of occupancy shall be issued to any new
construction unless curbs and sidewalks are installed in accordance with this
article.
All applicants for permits shall give at least 24 hours' notice, in
writing, to the City Engineer, including a sketch, drawing or plan drawn and
signed by a New Jersey licensed professional engineer, showing all pertinent
lines and grades proposed, in addition to any existing utilities and public
facilities located within 50 feet of the proposed installation.
All sidewalks shall be four-inch-thick portland cement concrete, Class
C. All driveways, including walkway crossings, shall be six-inch portland
cement concrete, Class C, and shall include six-by-six-inch, six-gauge wire-mesh
reinforcement. All sidewalk and driveway concrete shall be struck with contraction
joints every five feet maximum and have an approved expansion joint each 25
feet maximum. Expansion joint material shall be either cork or mastic materials
or approved equal. Curbing shall be constructed to the dimensions of six inches
wide at the top and eight inches wide at the bottom and 18 inches deep, with
portland cement concrete, Class B. Expansion joints of cork, mastic materials
or approved equal shall be installed every 25 feet maximum.
All work areas shall be thoroughly cleaned up, backfilled, top-soiled and seeded, paved as required by Chapter 165, Excavations, Article II, Street Openings, to ensure a workmanlike condition when completed, all to the satisfaction of the City Engineer and/or the Commissioners of the City of Brigantine.
The applicant will be responsible for directing its contractor to keep
all work areas guarded and barricaded at all times to ensure the safe passage
of traffic, vehicular and pedestrian, and shall open no more area than is
reasonably necessary.
[Amended 10-18-2000 by Ord.
No. 26-2000]
The applicant, as a requirement of receiving a permit, shall save harmless
the City of Brigantine, the City Commissioners and the employees and consultants
of the City of Brigantine, from any and all claims of any nature arising out
of the construction of any work authorized or unauthorized by the issuing
of a permit. Likewise, the City of Brigantine, its agents, officers and employees
are indemnified and held harmless from any liability arising from any trip
and fall or other type of accident on such sidewalk and curbing whether said
sidewalk and curbing is newly installed pursuant to a permit or is otherwise
already existing. The City of Brigantine, its agents, officers and employees
shall not be responsible for the maintenance of any such sidewalks or curbing.
[Amended 12-28-1992 by Ord.
No. 28-1992]
[Amended 12-28-1992 by Ord.
No. 28-1992]
Any person, company or corporation violating any provision of this article,
upon conviction in the Municipal Court of the City of Brigantine, shall be
punished for each offense by a fine not to exceed $1,000 or by imprisonment
for not more than 90 days, or both, and each day on which said violation exists
shall be considered a separate offense.
