§ 13-3-205. Maintenance permits.

   (a)   When allowed. The Director may issue a maintenance permit on an annual basis to a utility instead of issuing individual permits for activities in the right-of-way covered by the maintenance permit.

   (b)   Scope of permit. A maintenance permit covers:

      (1)   emergency activity in or under the paved or unpaved area of the right-of-way that is necessary for the preservation of life, health, or property or for the restoration of interrupted service; and

      (2)   those non-emergency activities, excluding excavations in or under the paved rights-of-way, that are specified in the permit, including:

         (i)   an activity that makes no material change to the footprint of the facility or to the airspace, surface, or subsurface of a right-of-way but disturbs or impedes traffic on a local road;

         (ii)   abandoning facilities;

         (iii)   replacing overhead poles in kind;

         (iv)   new individual services to a residence or building from existing facilities that are on the same side of the right-of-way, so long as the activity related to the service does not exceed 300 feet; and

         (v)   directional boring under sidewalks and driveway aprons.

   (c)   Notification to Department. For emergency activity, the permittee shall notify the Department during or within 24 hours after the activity. For non-emergency activities, the permittee shall notify the Department at least 48 hours before the activity takes place. For emergency and non-emergency activities, the utility shall provide information about the activity as required by the Department.

   (d)   Survey. By September 1, 2006, a utility shall file with the Department any existing plats or drawings that show the location of underground facilities in the County's rights-of-way. Thereafter, on an annual basis, the utility shall file in the form required by the Department a full and complete survey, including descriptions and as-built maps, of the location of underground facilities installed in the County's rights-of-way in the previous year.

   (e)   Fees. When a utility seeks the issuance of a maintenance permit, it shall pay the permit and inspection fees required by §§ 13-3-302 and 13-3-303 when billed in accordance with § 13-3-306.

(1985 Code, Art. 25, § 25-3-205) (Bill No. 15-02; Bill No. 63-04; Bill No. 53-06; Bill No. 76-19; Bill No. 27-21)