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(g) Protect and identify excavations and work operations with barricade flags, and if required, by flagmen in the daytime, and by warning lights at night. (h) Provide proper trench protection as required by O.S.H.A when necessary and depending upon the type of soil, in order to prevent cave-ins endangering life or tending to enlarge the excavation. (i) Protect the root growth of trees and shrubbery. (j) Installation of pipe (utility conductors) under concrete or bituminous pavements shall be done by jacking, auguring or tunneling as directed by the city unless otherwise authorized. (k) All backfilling must be placed in six-inch layers at optimum moisture and compacted with the objective of attaining 100 percent of standard proctor density. Compaction shall be accomplished with hand, pneumatic or vibrating compacters as appropriate. (I) No metal -tracked or other lugged equipment is allowed to be driven on the public right-of-way. 304.14 Work Done Without a Permit. (1) Emergency Situations. Each person with facilities in the right-of-way shall immediately notify the city of any event regarding its facilities which it considers to be an emergency. The owner of the facilities may proceed to take whatever actions are necessary to respond to the emergency. Within two business days after the occurrence of the emergency the owner shall apply for the necessary permits, pay the fees associated therewith and fulfill the rest of the requirements necessary to bring itself into compliance with this chapter for the actions it took in response to the emergency. If the city becomes aware of an emergency regarding facilities, the city will attempt to contact the local representative of each facility owner affected, or potentially affected, by the emergency. In any event, the city may take whatever action it deems necessary to respond to the emergency, the cost of which shall be borne by the person whose facilities occasioned the emergency. (2) Non -Emergency Situations. Except in an emergency, any person who, without first having obtained the necessary permit, obstructs or excavates a right-of-way must subsequently obtain a permit, and as a penalty pay double the normal fee for said permit, pay double all the other fees required by this code, deposit with the city the fees necessary to correct any damage to the right-of-way and comply with all of the requirements of this chapter. 304.15 Supplementary Notifications. If the obstruction or excavation of the right-of-way begins later or ends sooner than the date given on the permit, permittee shall notify the city of the accurate information as soon as this information is known. Page 12 of 19