In this chapter, the following words will have the meaning stated unless the context otherwise requires:
APPLICANT: Any person required by this chapter to apply for a permit or any person authorized by this chapter to make an excavation or enter a substructure opening without applying for a permit.
BLOCK: For the purpose of this chapter, will be defined as six hundred sixty feet (660').
CITY CLERK: The city clerk of the city of Gallup, or a person assigned the duties customarily given a clerk.
CITY MANAGER: The city manager of the city of Gallup or his designee.
EMERGENCY: Any situation necessitating excavation or entrance into a substructure opening for the purpose of locating trouble or making repairs in a facility for the immediate protection of life or property.
EXCAVATION: A hole, trench, ditch or a depression in a public place resulting from the removal by a person of pavement, dirt or other material, except a substructure opening.
FACILITY: Any pipe, pipeline, tube, main, service, vent, vault, manhole, meter, regulator, valve, conduit, pole, pole line, anchor, cable, structure or object of any kind or character, whether enumerated herein or not, which is or may be lawfully constructed, left, placed or maintained in, upon, along, across, under or over any public place.
PERSON: Any person or persons, singular or plural, male or female, natural or artificial, including, but not limited to, a firm, partnership, association, corporation, company or organization of any kind.
PUBLIC PLACE: All property owned, maintained or controlled by the city, including, but not limited to, streets, highways, alleys, ways, places, sidewalks, plazas, parks, trails, easements and rights of way.
STRUCTURE OPENING: An opening into a lawful substructure, the top of which is flush with the adjoining surface of a public place and which is so constructed as to permit frequent openings without injury or damage to a public place and without removal of pavement, dirt or other material.
SUBSTRUCTURE: Any facility located below the surface of any public place.
UTILITY: Any person furnishing the public gas, water, electricity, sewer service, refuse collection, telephone service, cable television or similar product or service either city owned or city franchised to use a public place. (Ord. C66-193, 3-9-1982; amd. 2006 Code)