For the purpose of §§ 6-5-2-1 et seq., the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
APPLICANT. Any person required by §§ 6-5-2-1 et seq. to apply for a permit to make an excavation or barricade a city street, alley, or public right-of-way.
BARRICADE(S). Any MUTCD approved obstruction within the public right-of-way that impedes the traveling public, either vehicular or pedestrian.
BARRICADING ONLY PERMIT. A permit issued by the Mayor allowing the temporary barricade of the surface of the public right-of-way. Such permits shall not include or allow excavation activities. Such permits shall include placement of trash dumpsters; piles of gravel, dirt debris; placement of storage containers; etc.
BLASTING. Use of explosive devices.
BLOCK. Measured along the same street in the same general direction, the distance between two adjacent intersecting public roadways, not to exceed 660 linear feet.
DIRECTIONAL DRILLING. Horizontal directional rotary drilling process.
EMERGENCY REPAIR. The repair, restoration, or replacement of an existing structure or infrastructure made necessary because of a sudden unexpected event which has created a condition which is an immediate and continuing threat to the safety of property or persons, including loss of any public utility service.
EXCAVATION. Any hole, trench, ditch or depression which penetrates through or under paved or unpaved surface in a public place resulting from the removal by a person of pavement, dirt, or other material, except a substructure opening. EXCAVATION shall include removal of concrete, removal of asphalt, and grading or blading.
EXCAVATION PERMIT. A permit issued by the Mayor allowing an excavation in the public right-of-way not to exceed one block.
GRAFFITI. Unauthorized painting, writing or inscription.
HOLE HOG. Horizontal pneumatic non-guided drilling process.
INFRASTRUCTURE. Physical features, including overhead and underground utilities, located within the public right-of-way used primarily for the benefit and enjoyment of the general public.
JACKING. Horizontal semi guided tunneling process.
MAYOR. The Mayor or his designated representative.
MUTCD. Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, latest edition.
PAVEMENT. Any improved traveling surface for vehicular, bicycle, or pedestrian traffic; including asphalt, portland cement concrete, brick, masonry, or other man-made materials.
PERMIT. The revocable written authorization from the city to use, work in, or otherwise occupy public right- of-way; detailing the specific time, place, and other restrictions for the allowed use.
PERSON. Any individual, estate, trust, receiver, cooperative association, club, corporation, franchised
utility company, firm, partnership, joint venture, syndicate, or other legal entity, including city and other governmental agencies.
POTHOLE. A vertical nondestructive excavation for the intent of verifying the location of underground infrastructure.
PUBLIC PLACE. All property owned, maintained, or controlled by the City of Albuquerque, including, but not limited to, streets, highways, alleys, bicycle paths, pedestrian or equestrian paths, ways, places, sidewalks, plazas, parks, easements, and rights-of-way.
PUBLIC RIGHT-OF-WAY. The total area of land deeded, reserved by plat, or otherwise acquired by the city, the county, or the state, primarily for the use of the public for the movement of people, goods, and vehicles.
RESTORATION PERIOD. A period up to December 31st of the fifth year following new construction, reconstruction, or major rehabilitation (including milling and repaving) of a roadway pavement. A period up to December 31st of the third year following preventative pavement maintenance; including heater- scarify, heater-repave, micro-surfacing, or slurry seal application; of a roadway pavement. A period up to December 31st of the fifth year following any pavement preparation funded from federal funds.
SUBSTRUCTURE. Any facility located below the surface of any public place.
SUBSTRUCTURE OPENING. An opening into a lawful substructure, the top of which is approximately flush with the adjoining surface of a public place and which is so constructed as to permit frequent openings without injury or damage to a public place and without removal of pavement, dirt, or other material.
TRENCHLESS EXCAVATION. Utility line installation, replacement, or rehabilitation through the use of boring, jacking, horizontal drilling or tunneling.
(Ord. 13-2005)