(A) The placement of traffic-control markings on pavements and curbs by the city and the marking of pavements, curbs, and sidewalks by utility companies, engineers, and surveyors to indicate the location of underground utility lines and monuments in connection with surveying, design, construction, and maintenance work pursuant to a franchise, license, or other agreement with or permission from the city may be done without a permit; however, all other pavement, curb, and sidewalk markings require a permit.
(B) An encroachment permit for public utilities and other continuing uses may contain provisions allowing continuing maintenance of the permittee’s facilities in the public rights-of-way and highways without securing a new and separate permit for each maintenance activity.
(C) This chapter does not prevent any person from maintaining any pipe or conduit lawfully on or under any public highway, or from making excavations necessary for the preservation of life or property when an urgent necessity therefore arises while city offices are closed. A person making an emergency use or encroachment on a public street shall apply for a permit therefore within one calendar day after the offices of the city are opened and shall pay all applicable fees, perform required pavement restoration, and comply with all other applicable requirements of this chapter.
(D) The city is not required to obtain permits from itself pursuant to this chapter, however, contractors or other persons performing work under contract with the city or on behalf of the city in the city highway must obtain appropriate permits and comply with all the regulations set forth in this chapter, notwithstanding the provisions of § 151.008(G).
(E) There are some public utilities who have ownership or easement interests in property obtained prior to the city obtaining ownership interest in that same property. Nothing in this chapter shall extinguish those prior interests in the property.
(Prior Code, § 18-2-1)