The purpose of this chapter is to regulate access to, activities within, and use of public rights-of-way to ensure and protect the public health, safety, and welfare by exercising reasonable control over certain activities within the public rights-of-way:
(A) To provide for the public peace and health and for the safety of persons and property within the public rights-of-way;
(B) To prescribe the terms and conditions upon which a permit to use the public rights-of-way may be granted, suspended, or revoked;
(C) To promote aesthetics, reliable services, and efficient, economical use of the public rights-of-way;
(D) To provide for the orderly construction, installation, operation, and removal of fixtures within the public rights-of-way;
(E) To minimize disruption caused by installation, operation, use, and removal of fixtures within the public rights-of-way;
(F) To provide sound and reasonable engineering standards to facilitate the present and future use of the public rights-of-way;
(G) To ensure the village and public are protected from liability for use of the public rights-of-way;
(H) To provide bonds to ensure that the rights-of-way, municipal easements, or public places are returned to its original condition during and after the permittee's access and use;
(I) To establish reasonable classifications of uses within the public rights-of-way;
(J) To require and exact payment of the reasonable sums for the permit as deemed proper; and
(K) To provide information to permittee concerning the public rights-of-way and provide for a fair and nondiscriminatory policy for permitting the use of the public rights-of-way.
(Ord. 236, passed 4-17-2000)