1. Each person who occupies, uses, or seeks to occupy or use the right-of-way or any equipment located in the right-of-way or who has or seeks to have equipment located in any right-of-way shall register with the City. All such registrations shall be filed with the City on or before the registration deadline established by the City Council by resolution, notice of which deadline shall be published in advance thereof in a newspaper of general circulation in Crawford County. No person may, after the registration deadline, construct, install, repair, remove, or relocate equipment located in any right-of-way or perform any other work on or use any equipment or any part thereof located in any right-of-way, without first being registered with the City. No person shall obstruct or excavate in any street right-of-way without obtaining appropriate permits as required by this chapter.
2. No person shall construct an irrigation system in any right-of-way unless a permit for such has been obtained pursuant to this chapter.
3. No person shall plant a street tree or any ornamental plantings in the right-of-way unless a permit for such has been obtained pursuant to this chapter. Persons planting or maintaining street trees or ornamental plantings in the right-of-way shall not be deemed to use or occupy the right-of-way for purposes of this chapter and shall not be required to register such use.
4. City utilities and enterprises which occupy and use rights-of-way for the provision of municipal utility and enterprise services, including sanitary sewer, water service, electric, gas, and communications services are required to register as provided in this chapter. City work crews, City utility work crews, and City contractors performing work in the right-of-way on behalf of the City directed at the construction, maintenance, or repair of traffic control signs and signals, storm drainage sewers, street and sidewalk surfaces, and other street appurtenances are exempt from the permit requirements of this chapter. Utility company work crews and contractors performing work in the right-of-way directed at the construction, maintenance, or repair of streetlights are exempt from the permit requirements of this chapter.
5. Governmental entities or agencies of the Federal government, the State, or the County which occupy and use rights-of-way for the provision of communications or utility services for governmental purposes shall be required to comply with the registration requirements of this chapter, except the insurance and bonding requirements associated therewith. Such governmental entities and agencies shall be required to obtain right-of-way permits and pay right-of-way permit fees to excavate in or obstruct the right-of-way as provided in this chapter.