(1) No person permitted under special ordinance or agreement with the City to open, break, or tunnel any street for the purpose of laying, repairing, maintaining or removing underground wires, as defined in § 9-303 (1)(b), shall commence work thereon until he has obtained a permit as provided in this Section.

(a) The application for such permit must be accompanied by a general plan and specifications showing the location of the proposed work and, so far as practical, that of all structures under the street concerned.

(2) No such permit shall be issued without the approval of the Department of Streets and of the Department concerned with the underground structures.

(a) Any work done under this Section shall be done in accordance with the regulations of the appropriate City departments.

(3) No permit shall be issued until the applicant files a bond in the amount of $5000. in such form and with such surety as the Law Department may require, conditioned upon compliance with the terms of the permit and with all laws, ordinances and regulations governing the activity for which the permit is sought, including satisfactory restoration of pavement, and indemnifying the City for any liability which the City may incur by granting the permit.

(4) The permit shall provide that the permittee shall, at his own cost and expense, repave and maintain in a satisfactory manner as much of the street pavement as is opened under authority of the permit.[9]

(5) When a permit has been granted for the laying or construction of main lines of underground wires, permission may also be granted, when approved by the Department of Streets and the Department of Public Property, to lay or construct branch lines therefrom not extending beyond three squares direct from the main line. This privilege shall be subject to revocation by Council.

(6) Any person who has been permitted to lay underground wires shall relocate such wires upon the written request of the Department of Streets or any other City agency, when they will interfere with proposed construction.