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a. Any person, natural or created by law, who fails, neglects or refuses to repair or maintain the repair to a public street as required by Section 31-49.1 shall be given a written notice by the Street Transportation Director to repair the public street. Such notice shall contain a brief statement of the violations and the name, address and phone number of a City representative who may be contacted for further information. The notice shall further inform such persons that failure to comply with the notice within the stated time will cause the City to perform such work with charges being billed to the person notified at twice the actual costs that will be incurred.

b. The Street Transportation Director shall have the authority to determine the date of completion of the initial repair and whether or not the repair has been satisfactorily maintained for a period of one year. In determining whether or not a repair has been satisfactorily maintained, the Street Transportation Director shall apply normal engineering practice for the type of street in question and such other applicable standards as are on file with the Street Transportation Director’s office.

c. When any person to whom notice has been given, fails, neglects or refuses to repair or maintain the public street by the date set for compliance within the notice, the Street Transportation Director of [or] his duly authorized representative shall repair or maintain the public street and do such other action as necessary to abate the failure to repair the public street. Upon completion of the work, the person who was given notice and failed to repair or maintain the public street within the time period set in the notice shall pay the City twice the actual costs incurred for repair set forth in the notice.

d. Any repair in the public right-of-way ordered by the Street Transportation Director shall be performed under permit and inspection by the Planning and Development Department. The Planning and Development Director will notify the Street Transportation Director when such repairs have been satisfactorily completed. (Ord. No. G-2470, § 2; Ord. No. G-3313, § 1; Ord. No. G-5590, § 1, 2011)