No storm or sanitary sewer, gas, water, electric power or telephone line or other structure or facility constructed or intended for use in connection with such lines shall be constructed above, below or upon the surface of the ground within the limits of the City until permission therefor has been granted by Council. The person seeking such permit shall make application therefor to the Director of Public Service and shall file with such application detailed plans and specifications, which plans shall show the proposed locations of all lines, structures or other improvements, together with information as to the purpose of such construction, the area to be served thereby and such other information as the City Engineer may deem pertinent. Such application and related information shall be submitted to the City Engineer for his study and recommendation to Council from an engineering standpoint, and shall also be submitted to the Board of Zoning and Planning for its study and recommendation as to the effect of such construction on City planning and development. The permit shall be denied if Council finds that such construction and operation will constitute a hazard to the public health or safety, or will have a seriously adverse effect on City planning and development, or will preempt a location, right of way or facility that may be reasonably necessary to the future provision of streets, public utilities, functions or services by the City which may reasonably be anticipated to be required of the City. In passing upon the application for a permit, Council shall take into consideration the availability to the applicant of other means of extending its services, by alterations of its plans, specifications or locations, should the granting of such permit be deemed to conflict with the interests of the City.
(Ord. 29-16. Passed 11-15-16.)
This chapter shall apply to all persons, firms, corporations, municipalities or agencies, public or private, other than the City and persons, firms and corporations contracting with the City for such construction, and shall apply whether the proposed construction is to be undertaken on public property or privately owned land, provided, however, that the construction of private or domestic service lines from an existing service or transmission line to service a parcel of ground or building thereon shall be exempt from the provisions of this chapter. Council may adopt regulations relative to such proposed construction and delegate to the City Engineer or other public officer or employee the right to grant such permits upon a finding that the proposed construction complies with such regulations in all respects.
(Ord. 29-16. Passed 11-15-16.)
Whoever violates or fails to comply with any of the provisions of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree and shall be fined not more than two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) or imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both. A separate offense shall be deemed committed each day during or on which a violation or noncompliance occurs or continues.
(Ord. 29-16. Passed 11-15-16.)