(A) Registration. Each person who occupies, uses, or seeks to occupy or use, the right-of-way or place any equipment or facilities in or on the right-of-way, including persons with installation and maintenance responsibilities by lease, sublease or assignment, must register with the city. Registration will consist of providing application information and paying a registration fee.
(B) Registration prior to work. No person may construct, install, repair, remove, relocate, or perform any other work on, or use any facilities or any part thereof in any right-of-way without first being registered with the city.
(C) Exceptions. Nothing in this section shall be construed to repeal or amend the provisions of a city ordinance establishing the rights of and limitations placed on persons to plant or maintain boulevard plantings or gardens in the area of the right-of-way between their property and the street curb. Persons carrying out or requesting the following work shall not be deemed to use or occupy the right-of-way within the meaning of this section, and shall not be governed by this section. Such work by non-right-of-way users shall be regulated under the City Code chapter noted below, unless provided otherwise.
(1) Other surface landscaping works;
(2) Planting or maintaining boulevard plantings or gardens;
(3) Construction and maintenance of driveways, sidewalks, curb and gutter, or parking lots, except repairs or restoration necessitated by utility cuts or other work;
(4) Construction or maintenance of street furnishings, bus stop benches, shelters, or posts and pillars;
(5)
Construction and maintenance of irrigation systems provided that the system does not connect directly to water mains in the right-of-way.
(6) Privately owned courtesy benches are not required to be registered, but must be licensed per Chapter 125.
(D) Gopher One Call. Nothing herein relieves a person from complying with the provisions of M.S. Chapter 216D, Gopher One Call Law.
(Ord. 2003-1005, passed 10-20-03; Am. Ord. 2017-1225, passed 12-4-17; Am. Ord. 2021-1263, passed 5-10-21)
Cross-reference:
Streets and sidewalks, see Ch. 96
Grass, weed and tree regulations, see Ch. 97