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Code of Sweetwater
Title 13 Property Maintenance Regulations
Chapter 5 Excavation Activities On Private Property
Title 13 Property Maintenance Regulations
Chapter 5 Excavation Activities On Private Property
Sweetwater
Title 13 : Property Maintenance Regulations
Chapter 5 : Excavation Activities On Private Property
13-503 : Permit required.
- Any person, firm, or corporation who anticipates excavation activities within the corporate limits of the city, shall, before the excavation commences, obtain an "Excavation Activities Permit" from the city's code enforcement office not less than seventy-two (72) hours prior to the commencement of excavation activities. In the event of an emergency which would require emergency excavation, the person, firm, or corporation undertaking such emergency excavation, prior to excavation, shall notify the code enforcement officer by telephone or personal communication, of the emergency and the need for emergency excavation without an issued permit. Should the code enforcement office be closed and/or the code enforcement officer can not be contacted, then the person, firm, or corporation undertaking such emergency excavation shall notify the Sweetwater Utility Board's General Manager or the appointed representative of the Sweetwater Utility Board of the emergency and the need for emergency excavation prior to excavation. If the emergency provision of this section is acted upon, then the proper application will be made by the person, firm, or corporation who enacted such provision as soon as the code enforcement office reopens or the code enforcement officer can be contacted to issue the required permit.
- Permit applications. Applications for the required permit shall be made to the code enforcement officer of the city and shall state thereon the location of the intended excavation activities, the size thereof, the purpose thereof, the person, firm, corporation, association, or others doing the actual excavating, the name of the person, firm, corporation, association, or others for whom the work is being done, and shall contain an agreement that the applicant will comply with all ordinances and laws related to the work being done. Such application shall be rejected or approved by the code enforcement officer and by the Sweetwater Utility Board's General Manager or by the appointed representative of the Sweetwater Utility Board within forty-eight (48) hours of its filing.
Date Last Updated: 08/05/2024
Codification Date: 03/01/2004
Officials at Date of Last Codification:
Mayor - Doyle F. Lowe
Vice Mayor - Sam Moser
Commissioner - Lamar Hughes
Commissioner - Johanna Jinks
Commissioner - Alan Richeson
Commissioner - James A. Stutts
Recorder - Sonya Crush
City Attorney - John Cleveland