§ 20-87. Permits.

(a)

General.

(1)

Permits are required for the use of county road rights-of-way for the construction, installation, or maintenance of any public utility, or any other facility, structure, driveway, pavement or object in the road right-of-way other than those constructed or maintained by Sumter County.

(2)

Permits will be issued by the Sumter County Public Works Department.

(3)

Applicants for permits must acknowledge that they have determined the locations of all other users of the right-of-way and will be responsible for the facilities of others.

(b)

Types of permits.

(1)

Utility location permit. This permit is typically issued to utility companies, both privately and publicly owned, for construction and maintenance of overhead and underground utility systems, such as gas lines, telephone cables, sanitary sewer and water lines, said infrastructure to be located in the road right-of-way of Sumter County. These permits will be issued subject to the following:

(i)

Open cuts across paved county roads are discouraged. Other alternatives should be explored and exhausted with the county public works division prior to the county's issuance of a permit for an open road cut.

(ii)

Permitted open road cuts and emergency open road cuts must be repaired to the satisfaction and approval of the Sumter County Division of Public Works.

(iii)

A traffic control plan shall be submitted for approval by the Sumter County Division of Public Works prior to the creation of any open road cut. Work on the cut shall not commence until the traffic control plan has been approved by the division of public works.

(iv)

Construction activities will be conducted in compliance with the Manual on Uniform Traffic Devices ("MUTCD").

(2)

Driveway permits.

(Ord. No. 2008-01, § 7, 1-8-08; Ord. No. 2008-20, § 1, 7-22-08)