For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly requires a different meaning.
ACCESS VAULT. Any structure containing one or more ducts, conduits, manholes, handhole or other such facilities in the permittee’s facilities.
APPURTENANCES. Transformers, switching boxes, gas regulator stations, terminal boxes, meter cabinets, pedestals, junction boxes, handholes substations, system amplifiers, power supplies, pump stations, manholes, valves and valve housings and other devices that are necessary to the function of electric, communications, cable television, water, sewer, storm water, natural gas and other utilities and services.
CONTRACTOR. A person, partnership, corporation or other legal entity who undertakes to construct, install, alter, move, remove, trim, demolish, repair, replace, excavate or add to any improvements covered by this code, that requires work, workers and/or equipment to be in the public right-of-way in the process of performing the above named operations.
DEGRADATION. A decrease in the useful life of the right-of-way or damage to any landscaping within the rights-of-way caused by excavation in or disturbance of the right-of-way, resulting in the need to reconstruct the surface and/or subsurface structure of such right-of-way earlier than would be required if the excavation or disturbance did not occur.
DEVELOPER. The person, partnership, corporation or other legal entity who is improving a parcel of land within the town and who is legally responsible to the town for the construction of improvements within a subdivision or as a condition of a building permit.
DIRECTOR. The Town Manager of the town, or his or her authorized representative.
DUCT or CONDUIT. A single enclosed raceway for cables, fiber optics or other wires or a pipe or canal used to convey fluids or gases.
EMERGENCY. Any event which may threaten public health or safety, or that results in an interruption in the provision of services, including, but not limited to, damaged or leaking water or gas conduit systems, damaged, plugged or leaking sewer or storm drain conduit systems, damaged electrical and communications facilities and advanced notice of needed repairs is impracticable under the circumstances.
EXCAVATE. To dig into or in any way remove or penetrate any part of a right-of-way.
FACILITIES. Including, without limitation, any pipes, conduits, wires, cables, amplifiers, transformers, fiber optic lines, antennas, poles, street lights, ducts, fixtures and appurtenances and other like equipment used in connection with transmitting, receiving, distributing, offering and providing utility and other services.
FENCE. Any artificially constructed barrier of wood, masonry, stone, wire, metal or any other manufactured material or combination of materials erected to enclose partition, beautify, mark or screen areas of land.
INFRASTRUCTURE. Any public facility, system or improvement including, without limitation, water and sewer mains and appurtenances, storm drains and structures, streets, alleys, traffic signal poles and appurtenances, conduits, signs, landscape improvements, sidewalks and public safety equipment.
LANDSCAPING. Materials, including, without limitation, grass, ground cover, shrubs, vines, hedges or trees and non-living natural materials commonly used in landscape development, a well as attendant irrigation systems.
PERMIT. Any authorization for use of the public rights-of-way granted in accordance with the terms of this chapter, and the laws and policies of the town.
PERMITTEE. The holder of a valid permit issued pursuant to this chapter.
PERSON. Any person, firm, partnership, special, metropolitan or general district, association, corporation, company or organization of any kind.
PUBLIC RIGHT-OF-WAY or RIGHT-OF-WAY or PUBLIC WAY. Any public street, way, place, alley, sidewalk, easement, park, square, plaza and town-owned right-of-way dedicated to public use.
ROUTINE MAINTENANCE. Any above ground activity that does not affect the surface of the right-of-way, nor affects the use of the right-of-way.
SPECIFICATIONS. Engineering regulations, construction specifications and design standards adopted by the town.
STRUCTURE. Anything constructed or erected with a fixed location below, on or above grade, including, without limitation, foundations, fences, retaining walls, awnings, balconies and canopies.
SURPLUS DUCTS OR CONDUITS. Conduits or ducts other than those occupied by the permittee or any prior permittee, or unoccupied ducts held by the permittee as emergency use spares, or other unoccupied ducts that permittee reasonably expects to use within three years from the date of a request for use.
TOWN. The Town of Limon, Colorado.
WORK. Any labor performed on, or any use or storage of equipment or materials, including, but not limited to, construction of streets and all related appurtenances, fixtures, improvements, sidewalks, driveway openings, bus shelters, bus loading pads, street lights and traffic signal devices. It shall also mean construction, maintenance, and repair of all underground structures such as pipes, conduit, ducts, tunnels, manholes, vaults, buried cable, wire or any other similar structure located below surface, and installation of overhead poles used for any purpose.
(Prior Code, § 165.2) (Ord. 503, passed 7-7-2005; Ord. 577, passed 11-6-2014)