CHAPTER 13.20
UNDERGROUND UTILITIES
Sections
   13.20.010   Definitions.
   13.20.020   Public hearing.
   13.20.030   Report by City Engineer.
   13.20.040   District – Designation.
   13.20.050   Overhead utilities – Removal.
   13.20.060   Overhead utilities – Installation for emergency service.
   13.20.070   Overhead utilities – Permitted conditions.
   13.20.080   Connection.
   13.20.090   Utility company responsibility.
   13.20.100   Construction, service connection – Property owner responsibility designated.
   13.20.110   Construction, service connection – Notice.
   13.20.120   Construction, service connection – City action.
   13.20.130   Construction, service connection – Disconnection.
   13.20.140   Construction, service connection – Assessment – Protest hearing.
   13.20.150   Construction, service connection – Assessment – Determination.
   13.20.160   Construction, service connection – Assessment – Delinquency.
   13.20.170   Removal of city-owned equipment.
   13.20.180   Time extensions.
   13.20.190   Violation – Penalty.
Statutory reference:
   For statutory provisions authorizing cities to construct and maintain drains and sewers, see Cal. Gov’t Code § 38900;
   For provisions on municipal regulation of industrial wastes, see Cal. Gov’t Code §§ 54738 et seq.
13.20.010 Definitions.
   Whenever in this chapter the words or phrases defined in this section are used, they shall have the respective meanings assigned to them in the following definitions.
   (A)   "Commission" means the Public Utilities Commission of the state.
   (B)   "Person" means individuals, firms, corporations, partnerships and their agents and employees.
   (C)   "Poles, overhead wires and associated overhead structures" means poles, towers, supports, wires, conductors, guys, stubs, platforms, crossarms, braces, transformers, insulators, cutouts, switches, communication circuits, appliances, attachments and appurtenances located above ground within a district and used or useful in supplying electric, communication or similar or associated service.
   (D)   "Underground Utility District" or "District" means that area in the city within which poles, overhead wires and associated overhead structures are prohibited as such area is described in a resolution adopted pursuant to the provisions of § 13.20.040.
   (E)   "Utility" includes all persons or entities supplying electric, communications or similar or associated service by means of electrical materials or devices.
(`78 Code, § 13.20.010.)
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