Ordinance No. 064F Municipal Sewer

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Section 8. Restrictions on Connection Permits. Connection permits shall be issued only to property owners or to such persons, who are duly licensed by the City of Gem Lake, to engage in the business as Sewer Contractors and who have filed bonds and insurance as required by this Ordinance. Section 9. Expiration of Connection Permits. All connection permits shall expire ninety (90) days after the date of issuance, and any and all fees forfeited, unless the work planned and authorized is in actual progress. Section 10. Costs for Major Repairs or Replacement. 1. The costs for major repairs or replacement of portions or all of the existing municipal sanitary sewer System shall be borne by the users of the system. The system operates as a public utility and exists to serve its users. 2. If a major repair or replacement of the existing system is necessary, all costs of replacement or major repair of any and all parts of the system shall be assessed against the properties served and buildings connected to the existing system. Whenever possible, a project for major repair or replacement will be initiated by the City Council, the City Engineer will prepare specifications, bids taken, and public hearings will occur before major repair or replacement would start. 3. In cases of emergency replacement or repair of the system, the City Council will initially arrange for payment for such replacement or repair and then assess all costs of such repairs or replacement to the system users. Section 11. Licensing of Sewer Contractors. 1. Eligibility. Any person who has had at least three (3) years of experience in responsible charge of minor sewer work involving a knowledge of trenching, bracing, tunnel work, pipe laying in public streets and all other matters pertaining to and incidental to such sewer work and is a Licensed Plumber or an Unlicensed Plumber who has received and provides copies of a contractor's bond in the amount of $25,000 issued by the State of Minnesota Department of Health for doing sewer work is eligible to receive a license as a Sewer Contractor in the City of Gem Lake. 2. Application for License. Any person desiring to become a sewer contractor shall make application to the City Clerk and shall, if necessary, be required to submit himself to an examination as to his qualifications before the City Engineer or Plumbing Inspector. 3. Examination and Licensing. The City Council may approve or reject said application or may refer the same to the City Engineer or the Plumbing Inspector, for examination as to the applicant's qualifications. If the City Council approves the application, a license authorizing the applicant to engage in the business of sewer contracting shall be issued, but only after the execution and filing of the bond and insurance requirements and payment of the fee is accomplished. 4. Bond and Insurance. Before the Sewer Contractor's License is issued, the licensee shall file, with the City Clerk, the following Bond and Insurance certificate: 1. A bond in favor of the City of Gem Lake, as obligee, with an approved Corporate Surety, in the penal sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000.00), the conditions of which bond shall be that the licensee shall keep the obligee harmless from all costs and charges that may accrue on account of the doing of any work authorized or permitted in making sewer connections in the City of Gem Lake per this Ordinance, that the licensee shall save the obligee harmless from any loss or damage by reason of improper or inadequate work performed by the licensee on projects done per this Ordinance and further that the licensee shall save the obligee harmless from any damage to utility lines, curbs, street, street surfaces or sidewalks. 2. A certificate that insurance is in force covering the licensee for the period covered by the licensee in the following minimum amounts: Property damage, one hundred thousand dollars ($ Ordinance No. 64F Municipal Sanitary Sewer System Page 4 of 10