For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ALLEY. A public or legally established thoroughfare other than a street affording a secondary method of vehicular access to abutting property and not intended for general traffic circulation.
CURB. A part of the street usually of the same elevation as the center of the street which is parallel to the street which separates the portion of the roadway established for vehicular traffic from the adjacent greenbelt area designed to keep vehicular traffic from the greenbelt area.
FACILITIES and STRUCTURES. Poles, towers, monitoring wells, pipes, conduits, guy wires, anchors, pedestals, utility boxes, manholes, handholes, vaults, utility pits, nodes, junction boxes, buildings and enclosures, including fences.
PUBLIC RIGHT-OF-WAY. The entire area owned or dedicated by the city or other governmental agency or entity for public use as a highway, street, alley or other public place.
STREET. That portion of a public thoroughfare improved, designed or ordinarily used for vehicular traffic including curbs on paved roads and shoulders on unimproved thoroughfares.
UTILITY EASEMENT. A right or privilege over a specific portion of land area granted by the owner to the public, a corporation or some particular person or persons for specific uses and purposes, and which is designated a public or private easement depending on the nature of the use.
(Ord. 99-8, passed 11-18-1999)