.010 "Applicant" shall mean any owner, or duly authorized agent of such owner, who has submitted an application for a permit to excavate a City street.
.020 "City" shall mean City of Anaheim.
.030 "City Engineer" shall mean the person employed by the City with the title of City Engineer who is licensed to practice engineering in the State of California.
.040 "City Street" shall mean any public right-of-way, which has been accepted, or is hereafter accepted, by the City Council into the City road system.
.050 "Department" shall mean the Department of Public Works.
.060 "Director" shall mean the Director of the Department of Public Works or their designee.
.070 "Excavation" shall mean any opening in the surface or subsurface of the public right-of-way including trenches and/or bore pits.
.080 "Facility" or "facilities" shall mean any and all cables, cabinets, ducts, conduits, converters, equipment, drains, handholds, manholes, pipes, pipelines, splice boxes, surface location markers, tunnels, utilities, vaults, and other appurtenances or tangible things owned, leased, operated, or licensed by an owner or person, that are located or are proposed to be located in the public right of-way.
.090 "Franchise Agreement" shall mean a negotiated contract between the City and a utility or service provider that grants the right to serve customers with the City's jurisdiction.
.100 "Owner" shall mean any person, including any agency, department, or subdivision of the City, who owns any facility or facilities that are or are proposed to be installed or maintained in the public right-of-way.
.110 "Pavement Condition Index (PCI)" is a numerical rating between 0 and 100, which is used to indicate the general condition of a pavement section, where 100 means newly paved.
.120 "Permit" or "permit to excavate" shall mean a permit to perform an excavation as it has been approved or may be amended or renewed by the Department.
.130 "Person" shall mean any natural person, corporation, partnership, or any governmental agency, including any agency, department, or subdivision of the City, the County of Orange, the State of California, or the United States of America.
.140 "Pothole" shall mean a vacuum or excavated hole used to locate known utilities below surface level by excavating holes.
.150 "Public right-of-way" shall mean the area across, along, beneath, in, on, over, under, upon, and within the dedicated public alleys, boulevards, courts, lanes, places, roads, sidewalks, streets, and ways within the City, as they now exist or hereafter will exist and which are or will be under the permitting jurisdiction of the Department of Public Works.
.160 "Rehabilitation improvements" means street pavement improvements such as overlays greater than 2 inches.
.170 "Resurfacing improvements" means road surface improvements such as thin overlays 2 inches or less.
.180 "Seal coat" means a nonstructural road surface treatment designed to increase pavement life, such as a chip seal or a slurry seal.
.190 "Structural improvements" means major street pavement improvements such as full depth reconstruction or reclamation.
.200 "Trench cut" shall mean the action of or the result of opening, scaring, trenching, excavating, repairing, installing, adding to, removing or otherwise altering any portion of any public roadway, street, alley or thoroughfare for any purpose whatsoever.
.210 Trench "failure" shall mean any condition that causes surface irregularities, depressions, cracking, severe spalling or raveling of the patch area, surface buckling, settlement, upheaval, frac-outs and other failures resulting from any excavation methods.
.220 "Trench influence area" shall mean an area two feet adjacent to the edge of the trench where the excavation occurs. (Ord. 6536 § 1 (part); September 27, 2022.)