§ 3.05 Maintenance Bond Required

A section of Subdivision Ordinance: Subdivision Ordinance

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3.05 MAINTENANCE BOND REQUIRED

The owner and subdivider of the land being platted shall be required to provide to the City, proper maintenance bonds satisfactory to the City, so as to insure that for a period of three (3) years from the date of acceptance of any improvement, the owner and subdivider shall be responsible to maintain such improvement in good repair. The City may, at its sole discretion, accept alternative sureties to maintenance bonds to insure the workmanship of the improvements accepted by the City. A performance bond will also be required per Section 5.12.

Ordinance 2013-332, adopted July 24, 2013; in effect on publication (August 6, 2013), source page

Confirmed by the city's current text: the 2026 draft recodification (August 2026, not adopted) has the same words (§ 170.12, p. 668). This ordinance's text was consolidated because the later text agrees with it.

History

History of the section
FromToSourceHowDocument
Mar 27, 2013Aug 6, 2013 Ordinance 2012-319 section replaced; reviewed, text p. 2
Aug 6, 2013today Ordinance 2013-332 section replaced, text p. 1

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