A. All facilities shall be installed and located to minimize interference with the rights and convenience of other property owners.
B. An owner or operator of a facility shall not place facilities, equipment, or fixtures where they will interfere with any other facilities, or obstruct or hinder in any manner the various utilities serving the residents of the city or their use of any public rights of way.
C. The city may reasonably direct the specific placement of facilities to ensure that users of the public rights of way do not interfere with each other and that the public rights of way are used safely and efficiently.
D. Every grantee that ceases operating or maintaining any facility shall, upon written request of the city within two (2) years or the cessation or maintenance of such facility, promptly remove it. Should the grantee neglect, refuse, or fail to remove such facility, the city may remove the facility at the expense of the grantee. The obligation to remove shall survive the termination of the franchise or license for a period of two (2) years and shall be bonded.
E. No owner or operator of a facility shall erect new aerial plant, other than to repair existing plant, in or on a public right of way in which both electric and telephone service providers have placed their lines underground, or in an area which the city has by ordinance forbidden new aerial plant to be constructed or existing aerial plant to be maintained.
F. If at any time the city determines that existing wires, cables or other like facilities of public utilities anywhere in the city shall be changed from an overhead to underground installation, the owner or operator of a facility shall, at the owner's or operator's sole expense, convert its system in that location to an underground installation.
G. A grantee shall use, with the owner's permission, existing poles, conduits and other facilities whenever feasible. A grantee may not erect poles, conduits, or other facilities in public rights of way without the express permission of the city. Copies of agreements for use of conduits or other facilities shall be filed with the city upon city request.
H. To the extent practicable, aboveground equipment placed on private property shall be placed at the location requested by the property owner. An owner or operator shall provide affected homeowners with at least ten (10) days' advance written notice of its plans to install such equipment, and shall make reasonable efforts to confer with such homeowners before any work is done.
I. Whenever aboveground equipment is placed on private property, the grantee shall provide landscaping camouflage reasonably acceptable to the property owner, at the grantee's expense. (Ord. 29-05, 5-2-2005)