For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
APPLICANT. Any person making a written application to the County Commissioners for a permit hereunder.
CONTRACTOR. A person who performs excavation or utility work. CONTRACTOR includes a person who performs work under a contract or subcontract. CONTRACTOR may be an applicant.
EXCAVATION. Any operation in which earth, rock, or other material in or on the ground is moved, removed, or otherwise displaced by means of any tools, equipment, or explosives and includes without limitation grading, trenching, digging, ditching, drilling, auguring, tunneling, scraping, cable, or pipe plowing and driving, demolition, wrecking, razing, rending, and moving or removing any structure or mass of material.
PERSON. Any individual, firm, joint venture, partnership, corporation, association, municipality, governmental unit, department, or agency and shall include any trustee, receiver, assignee, or personal representative thereof; provided, however, that nothing in this subchapter shall apply to any excavation done by the owner of a private residence when said excavation is made entirely on the land on which the private residence is situated.
ROAD. All areas within all public highways, rights- of-way, roads, bridges, streets, and alleys maintained by the county.
UNDERGROUND FACILITY. Any item of personal property which shall be buried or placed below ground or submerged for use in connection with the storage or conveyance of water, sewage, electronic, telephonic, or telegraphic communications, electric energy, oil, gas, or other substances, and shall include but not be limited to pipes, sewers, conduits, cables, valves, lines, wires, manholes, attachments, and those portions of poles below ground. UNDERGROUND FACILITY does not mean or include any stormwater drains.
UTILITY. A public utility, telecommunications or cable television corporation, authority, or other person that owns or operates an underground facility and has the right to bury an underground facility.
(2004 Code, § 197-3) (Ord. 154, passed 5-22-1997; Ord. 02-20, passed 11-21-2002)