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§ 154.29 REVOCATION OF PERMITS.
   (A)   Substantial breach. The city reserves its right, as provided herein, to revoke any right-of-way permit without a fee refund, if there is a substantial breach of the terms and conditions of any statute, ordinance, rule, or regulation, or any material condition of the permit. A substantial breach by permittee shall include, but shall not be limited to, the following:
      (1)   The violation of any material provision of the right-of-way permit;
      (2)   An evasion or attempt to evade any material provision of the right-of-way permit, or the perpetuation or attempt to perpetuate any fraud or deceit upon the city or its citizens;
      (3)   Any material misrepresentation of fact in the application for a right-of-way permit;
      (4)   The failure to complete the work in a timely manner, unless a permit extension is obtained or unless the failure to complete work is due to reasons beyond the permittee’s control; or
      (5)   The failure to correct, in a timely manner, work that does not conform to a condition indicated on an order issued.
   (B)   Written notice of breach. If the city determines that the permittee has committed a substantial breach of a term or condition of any statute, ordinance, rule, regulation, or any condition of the permit, the city shall make a written demand upon the permittee to remedy such violation. The demand shall state that continued violations may be cause for revocation of the permit. A substantial breach, as stated in division (A) above, will allow the city, at its discretion, to place additional or revised conditions on the permit to mitigate and remedy the breach.
   (C)   Response to notice of breach. Within 24 hours of receiving notification of the breach, permittee shall provide the city with a plan, acceptable to the city, that will cure the breach. Permittee’s failure to so contact the city, or permittee’s failure to timely submit an acceptable plan, or permittee’s failure to reasonably implement the approved plan, shall be cause for immediate revocation of the permit. Further, permittee’s failure to so contact the city, or permittee’s failure to submit an acceptable plan, or permittee’s failure to reasonably implement the approved plan, shall automatically place the permittee on probation for one full year.
   (D)   Cause for probation. From time to time, the city may establish a list of conditions of the permit, which if breached, will automatically place the permittee on probation for one full year, such as, but not limited to, working out of the allotted time period or working on right-of-way grossly outside of the permit authorization.
   (E)   Automatic revocation. If a permittee, while on probation, commits a breach as outlined above, permittee’s permit will automatically be revoked, and permittee will not be allowed further permits for one full year, except for emergency repairs.
   (F)   Reimbursement of city costs. If a permit is revoked, the permittee shall also reimburse the city for the city’s reasonable costs, including restoration costs and the costs of collection and reasonable attorneys’ fees incurred in connection with such revocation.
(Ord. passed 9-14-2021; Ord. passed 5-24-2022; Ord. passed 11-14-2023)
§ 154.30 MAPPING DATA.
   (A)   Information required. Each right-of-way user and permittee shall provide mapping information required by the city in accordance with Minn. Rules parts 7819.4000 and 7819.4100, as amended from time to time. Within 90 days following completion of any work pursuant to a permit, the permittee shall provide the Director accurate maps and drawings certifying the “as-built” location of all equipment installed, owned, and maintained by the permittee. Such maps and drawings shall include the horizontal and vertical location of all facilities and equipment and shall be provided consistent with the city’s electronic mapping system, when practical or as a condition imposed by the Director. Failure to provide maps and drawings pursuant to this division (A) shall be grounds for revoking the permit holder’s registration.
   (B)   Service laterals. All permits issued for the installation or repair of service laterals, other than minor repairs as defined in Minn. Rules part 7560.0150, subp. 2, as it may be amended from time to time, shall require the permittee’s use of appropriate means of establishing the horizontal locations of installed service laterals and the service lateral vertical locations in those cases where the director reasonably requires it. Permittees or their subcontractors shall submit to the director evidence satisfactory to the director of the installed service lateral locations. Compliance with this division (B) and with applicable Gopher State One-Call law and Minn. Rules governing service laterals installed after Dec. 31, 2005, shall be a condition of any city approval necessary for:
      (1)   Payments to contractors working on a public improvement project, including those under M.S. Chapter 429, as it may be amended from time to time; and
      (2)   City approval under development agreements or other subdivision or site plan approval under M.S. Chapter 462, as it may be amended from time to time. The Director shall reasonably determine the appropriate method of providing such information to the city. Failure to provide prompt and accurate information on the service laterals installed may result in the revocation of the permit issued for the work or future permits to the offending permittee or its subcontractors.
(Ord. passed 9-14-2021; Ord. passed 5-24-2022; Ord. passed 11-14-2023)
§ 154.31 LOCATION AND RELOCATION OF FACILITIES.
   (A)   Placement, location, and relocation of facilities must comply with the Act, with other applicable law, and with Minn. Rules parts 7819.3100, 7819.5000, and 7819.5100, as they may be amended from time to time, to the extent the rules do not limit authority otherwise available to cities.
   (B)   If applicable, unless otherwise agreed in a franchise or other agreement between the applicable right-of-way user and the city, facilities in the right-of-way must be located or relocated and maintained underground in accordance with any relevant section of the City Code.
   (C)   (1)   The city may assign a specific area within the right-of-way, or any particular segment thereof as may be necessary, for each type of facility that is or, pursuant to current technology, the city expects will someday be located within the right-of-way. All excavation, obstruction, or other permits issued by the city involving the installation or replacement of facilities shall designate the proper corridor for the facilities at issue.
      (2)   Any right-of-way user who has facilities in the right-of-way in a position at variance with the corridors established by the city shall, no later than at the time of the next reconstruction or excavation of the area where the facilities are located, move the facilities to the assigned position within the right-of-way, unless this requirement is waived by the city for good cause shown, upon consideration of such factors as the remaining economic life of the facilities, public safety, customer service needs, and hardship to the right-of-way user.
   (D)   To protect the health, safety, and welfare of the public, or when necessary to protect the right-of-way and its current use, the city shall have the power to prohibit or limit the placement of new or additional facilities within the right-of-way. In making such decisions, the city shall strive to the extent possible to accommodate all existing and potential users of the right-of-way, but shall be guided primarily by considerations of the public interest, the public’s needs for the particular utility service, the condition of the right-of-way, the time of year with respect to essential utilities, the protection of existing facilities in the right-of-way, and future city plans for public improvements and development projects which have been determined to be in the public interest.
(Ord. passed 9-14-2021; Ord. passed 5-24-2022; Ord. passed 11-14-2023)
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