§ 12.16.120. Conformance by city officers and agents.

A.

No officer or agent of the city shall take part in the construction, repair or betterment of any street not already laid out, nor shall the building inspector issue a permit for the building of any structure of any nature upon land on the premises abutting on a private street, until the layout of such street has been approved and the street has been constructed in the manner provided in the regulations of the planning board, and unless the top of the foundation of the structure, where there is no cellar or basement, is constructed not less than Grade 16, and then only in streets where sewer, drain and water pipes have been laid.

B.

No officer or agent of the city shall construct or take part in the construction of any sewer, drain or water pipe in any street or way not already laid out, until the location, direction, width and grade of such street has been approved by the planning board and the city engineer and constructed as provided in this chapter; except, however, that this section shall not prevent the laying out of trunk sewer, drain or water mains as engineering demands may require, nor shall it apply to streets already laid out by the board of survey between January 1, 1890 and March 27, 1950, nor to a road opened to public travel previous to 1890.

(Prior revision § 17-43)