§ 19-4. Paving procedures.

(a) Per Director's requirements.

All grading, paving, and repaving work shall be done in accordance with the requirements of the Director of Transportation as to construction, line, and grade.

(b) Stop work.

The Director of Transportation is further authorized and empowered:

(1) to stop, at any time or times, any grading, paving, or repaving work that:

(i) is being done without a permit from the Director; or

(ii) is not being done in accordance with the Director's requirements as to construction, line, or grade; and

(2) to continue the work stoppage until the nonconformities are corrected by and at the cost and expense of the person, firm, or corporation for whom the work is being done or constructed.

(c) Failure to correct.

If the nonconformities are not corrected within a reasonable time or, in the judgment of the Director of Transportation, the work actually done has created conditions that menace the public safety, security, or health in the use of the streets, lanes, or alleys as thoroughfares, then the Director of Transportation is authorized and empowered to do any and all work, acts, and things that, in the Director's judgment, are necessary to eliminate the menace to the public safety, security, or health at the cost and expense of the person, firm, or corporation creating the conditions, which cost and expense shall be a lien on the abutting property of that person, firm, or corporation, until paid.