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or water district, failing to comply with the requirements or
infringing on the prohibitions of this section, may be punished by
a fine of $50 for each offense. These requirements, prohibitions
and penalties shall may not apply to excavations in grading,
building or repairing any of the public highways under the
supervision of the city municipal authorities. Such person or
persons, firm, corporation or bridge or water district shall
protect the paving on either side of the opening by the use of
sheet piling or such other means as will prevent the escape of sand
from underneath it. In determining the number of square yards of
paving disturbed, there shall be included such area of paving
adjoining the trench actually opened as will, in the opinion of the
commissioner of public works or such officer as the city government
may appoint, be required to be taken up and relaid by reason of
such failure to properly protect the same. The road commissioner,
the commissioner of public works or such officer as the municipal
officers may appoint in the absence of a commissioner may designate
the size of the area to be repaved upon closure of the excavation.

 
Sec. 6. 23 MRSA §3356 is amended to read:

 
§3356. Skill required

 
If the work or any part thereof of the work mentioned in
sections 3351 to 3355 of repairing or filling the trenches or
excavations shall be is unskillfully or improperly done, the road
commissioner, the commissioner of public works or such officer as
the city government municipal officers may appoint in the absence
of a commissioner may forthwith immediately cause the same work
or any part of the work to be skillfully and properly done and
shall keep an account of the expense thereof. In such case, such
person or persons, firm, corporation or bridge or water district
in default shall forfeit and pay a penalty equal to the whole of
said the expense incurred by said commissioner of public works or
such officer as the city government may appoint municipality,
with an addition of 50%. Thereafter, upon the completion of the
work and the determination of the costs thereof, the said
commissioner of public works or such officer as the city
government may appoint may not or appointee shall issue no a
further or new permit to any person or persons, firm, corporation
or bridge or water district so in default until he shall receive
the municipality receives, in addition to the fees provided, the
amount of the penalty as by this section provided and determined.

 
Sec. 7. 23 MRSA §3357 is amended to read:

 
§3357. Relaying of pavement


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