(A) It is hereby made the duty of every person owning, using, controlling or having an interest in pipes, conduits, ducts, or tunnels under the surface of any public place for supplying or conveying gas, electricity, water, steam, heat, ammonia or oil in, to or from the city, or to or from its inhabitants or for any other purpose, to file in the office of the City Engineer a map or set of maps, each drawn to a scale of not less than 200 feet to one inch, which said map or set of maps shall show in detail the exact location, size, description and date of installation, if known, of all mains, laterals, services and service pipes, and of all valves, pressure regulators, traps, manholes, hand-holes, transformer chambers, or other appliances installed beneath the surface of the public streets, alleys, sidewalks, or other public places in the city, belonging to, used by, or under the control of such person or in which such person has any interest. It shall also be the duty of every such person to file, within 15 days after the first day of January of each and every year after January 1, 1913, a corrected map or set of maps, each drawn to a scale of not less than 200 feet to one inch, showing the complete installation of all such pipes and other appliances, including all installations made during the previous year, to and including the last day of such year. Each such map shall be accompanied by an affidavit endorsed thereon, subscribed and sworn to by such person, or by a member of such firm, or by the President or Secretary of such corporation, to the effect that the same correctly exhibits the details required by this chapter to be shown thereon.
(B) Whenever any pipe, conduit, duct, tunnel or other structure located under the surface of any public street, alley or other public place or the use thereof is abandoned, the person owning, using, controlling or having an interest therein, shall within 30 days after such abandonment, file in the office of the City Engineer a statement in writing, giving in detail the location of the pipe, conduit, duct, tunnel or other structure so abandoned. Each map or set of maps filed pursuant to the provisions of this section shall show in detail the location of all such pipes, conduits, ducts, tunnels or other structures abandoned subsequent to the filing of the last preceding map or set of maps.
(C) It shall be unlawful for any person to fail, refuse or neglect to file any map or set of maps at the time, and in all respects as required by this section.
(`83 Code, § 12.08.110)