(A) Before the company may conduct underground work involving excavation, new construction or major relocation work in any rights-of-way or public place, the company shall first notify the city and shall comply with any special conditions relating to location, scheduling, coordination and public safety; and the company shall file maps and drawings with the Director showing the location of any construction or extension of its facilities and services in any rights-of-way or public place of the city. For multi-conduit duct banks, maps and drawings shall show overall size, material and configuration of the duct bank. As further set out at § 13-4-5-16, upon request from the city the company shall provide the city with updates of the maps and drawings showing the location of any new construction, extension or relocation of its facilities. All materials provided pursuant to this section shall be kept confidential to the fullest extent possible under the law.
(B) Such proposed construction work to be done by the company shall be performed in a safe manner subject to the approval of the Director and in accordance with applicable federal and state laws and city ordinances, regulations and permit requirements now or hereafter existing including the Street Excavation Ordinance, as that ordinance may be amended from time to time, of the city requiring a Sidewalk, Drive-pad, Curb and Gutter Bond, a bond securing payment of permit fees and evidence of at least $1,000,000 in the requisite insurance coverage(s).
(C) Prior to initiating any construction or extension of the backbone network and contemporaneous with the filing of maps and drawings, the company shall tender a review/location fee, in addition to the franchise fee, with the Director. Such preconstruction review/location fee shall be $1.50 per linear foot of fiber laid as diagramed and mapped; however, in no event shall such fee exceed $30,000 on an annual basis. Such review/location fee shall apply to subsequent additions or extensions of the company's backbone network as may be proposed from time to time and shall be due each January 15.
(Ord. 45-1995)