(A) Registration. Each person who occupies, uses or seeks to occupy or use, the right-of-way or place any equipment or facilities in or on the right-of-way, including persons with installation and maintenance responsibilities by lease, sublease or assignment, must register with the city. Registration will consist of providing application information and paying a registration fee.
(B) Registration prior to work. No person may construct, install, repair, remove, relocate or perform any other work on, or use any facilities or any part thereof in any right-of-way without first being registered with the city.
(C) Exceptions. Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to repeal or amend the provisions of a city ordinance establishing the rights of and limitations placed on persons to plant or maintain boulevard plantings or gardens in the area of the right-of-way between their property and the street curb. Persons shall not be deemed to use or occupy the right-of-way, and shall not be required to obtain any permits or satisfy any other requirements under this subchapter for the following:
(1) Planting or maintaining boulevard plantings or gardens;
(2) Other surface landscaping works;
(3) Maintenance of driveways and parking lots unless the maintenance requires excavation work in the right-of-way;
(4) Construction or maintenance of street furnishings, bus stop benches, shelters or posts and pillars;
(5) Snow removal activities; and
(6) Construction and maintenance of irrigation systems provided that the system does not connect directly to water mains in the right-of-way. Nothing herein relieves a person from complying with the provisions of the M.S. Chapter 216D, as amended from time to time, Gopher One Call Law.
(Ord. 235, passed 10-4-2000)