A. Filing maps. Every person owning, using, controlling, or having an interest in pipes, conduits, ducts, tunnels, or other structures under the surface of any street, used for the purpose of supplying or conveying gas, electricity, communication impulses, water, steam, ammonia, gasoline, or oil, in, to, or from the City or to or from its inhabitants, or for any other purpose, shall file with the Division the following:
1. Complete map. On demand, a map or set of maps, each drawn to a scale of not less than 200 feet to one inch, showing in detail the exact location, size, description and date of installation, if known, of all mains, laterals, valves, pressure regulators, drips, manholes, hand holes, transformers, chambers or other appliances installed beneath the surface of the street belonging to, used by, or under the control of such person, or in which such person has any interest.
2. Corrected map. Before the first day of March of each and every year, a corrected map or set of maps, each drawn to a scale of not less than 200 feet to one inch, showing the complete installation of all such pipes, conduits, ducts, tunnels, or other structures, including all installations made during the previous year, to and including the last day of such year.
3. Portion of map. Within twenty-four (24) hours after the receipt of a written request to do so, copies of any portion of any map or maps of such installation.
4. Affidavit. Each map herein required shall be accompanied by an affidavit endorsed thereon to the effect that the same correctly exhibits the details required to be shown by this Section. Such affidavits are not required where prints of current engineering maps are filed.
('65 Code, § 30-45)
B. Abandonment.
1. Whenever any pipe, conduit, duct, tunnel, or other structure located under the surface of any street, or the use thereof, is abandoned, the person owning, using, controlling or having an interest therein shall within 30 days after such abandonment, file with the Division a statement, in writing, giving in detail the location of the pipe, conduit, duct, tunnel, or other structure so abandoned. Each map, or set of maps filed pursuant to the provisions of this Subchapter shall show in detail the location of all such pipes, conduits, ducts, tunnels, or other structures abandoned subsequent to the filing of the last preceding map or set of maps. If such lines are in the way, or subsequently become in the way of an installation of the City or any other public body, which installation is pursuant to a governmental function, the owner shall remove such abandoned lines when exposed or pay the cost of removal thereof, as required by the installation of a facility by the City or any other public body.
2. The requirements herein shall not apply to abandoned service lines designed to serve a single property owner.
('65 Code, § 30-46)