§ 16-3. Emergency work.  


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  • This chapter shall not prevent any person from maintaining or repairing any facility which lawfully encroaches, in instances when the delaying of such work would jeopardize the health or safety of life or property. Any person required to perform emergency work must immediately notify the city public works department or police department and must obtain an encroachment permit on the following normal working day. When an emergency exists, the director of public works shall have full power to order the work performed at the expense of the permittee or owner of the encroachment facilities.

(Ord. 350, § 2.)