(A) General Areas:
1. That portion of Main Street in the city of Placerville between Sacramento Street and Cedar Ravine is hereby declared an underground utility district. (Ord. 950, 7-26-1966)
2. That portion of the city of Placerville designated on the map attached to ordinance 1026 as exhibit A and by reference made a part hereof, is hereby declared an underground utility district. (Ord. 1026, 6-12-1973, eff. 7-12-1973; amd. Ord. 1053, 2-12-1974)
3. That portion of the city of Placerville designated on the map attached to ordinance 1027 as exhibit A and by reference made a part hereof, is hereby declared an underground utility district. (Ord. 1027, 6-12-1973, eff. 7-12-1973; amd. Ord. 1053, 2-12-1974)
4. That portion of the city of Placerville designated on the map attached to ordinance 1104 as exhibit A and by reference made a part hereof, is hereby declared an underground utility district. (Ord. 1104, 2-22-1977)
5. That portion of the city of Placerville designated on the map attached to ordinance 1149 as exhibit A and by reference made a part hereof, is hereby declared an underground utility district. (Ord. 1149, 3-14-1978)
6. That portion of the city of Placerville designated on the map attached to ordinance 1377 as exhibit A and by reference made a part hereof, is hereby declared an underground utility district. (Ord. 1377, 8-27-1985)
(B) Utility District Number 7:
1. That portion of the city of Placerville along Main Street and Forni Road from Spring Street westerly approximately three thousand five hundred feet (3,500') to the city limits as designated on the map attached to ordinance 1589 as exhibit A, entitled underground utility district number 7, and by reference made a part hereof and hereafter as district number 7, is hereby declared an underground utility district.
2. All of the poles, overhead wires and associated overhead structures shall be removed and the underground installation of wires and facilities within the district shall be installed by March 1, 2004.
3. The utility that undertakes underground installation of its facilities on private property shall use the underground conversion allocation computed pursuant to decisions of the public utilities commission of the state of California for the purpose of providing to each premises in district number 7 a maximum of one hundred feet (100') of individual joint utility service trenching and conductor, as well as backfill, paving and conduit, if required. All costs for individual utility service trenching and conductor, as well as backfill, paving and conduit exceeding one hundred feet (100') shall be borne by the property owner. Each other serving utility will provide service trenching and conductor in accordance with its tariffs on file with the California public utilities commission or as required by its franchise agreement with the city. Since the undergrounding of utilities is in the city portion of the U.S. Highway 50 operational improvement project, the city of Placerville will provide an electrical contractor to install the conduit and termination box located on, under or within any structure on the premises served within district number 7. The city will assist in the funding of the conversion of the electrical service panel to accept underground service, up to the amount of one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500.00) per property providing that the property owner participation in completing their conversion work is at the same time the utility companies are doing their work, otherwise the contribution is forfeited. All additional costs shall be borne by the property owner. The underground conversion allocation participation on private property is limited to those properties upon which a residence, commercial establishment or other structure that currently receive electrical power exists as of the adoption of the ordinance codified herein.
The city of Placerville building department will issue a building permit and provide the required inspection without cost to the property owner. Each property owner in district number 7 shall be responsible for the maintenance of the installed conduit, termination box, and service panel.
4. Any person or utility who shall erect, construct, place, keep, maintain, continue, employ, or operate any such pole or overhead wire or associated overhead structure on any public street, alley or way, within district number 7, or who shall neglect to take down and remove any such pole, overhead wire or associated overhead structure within district number 7 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punishable by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00). Each consecutive fifteen (15) day period during which the failure to comply with the provisions hereof occurs, shall constitute a separate offense.
5. This subsection shall not apply to the following types of facilities:
(a) Wire (exclusive of supporting structures) crossing any portion of district number 7 from which overhead wires have been prohibited, or connecting to buildings on the perimeter of such portion, when such wires originate in an area from which poles and overhead wires and associated overhead structures are not prohibited;
(b) Overhead wires attached to the exterior surface of a building by means of a bracket or other fixtures and extending from one location on the building to another location on the same building or to an adjacent building without crossing any public street;
(c) Radio antennas, their associated equipment and supporting structures, used by a utility for furnishing communication services;
(d) Service terminals in pedestals aboveground, used to distribute electric or communication service in underground systems.
6. Within ten (10) days after the adoption of the ordinance codified herein, the city clerk of the city of Placerville shall notify all affected utilities and all persons owning real property within the underground utility district herein described of the adoption of the ordinance codified herein. The city clerk shall further notify said property owners of the necessity that if they, or any person occupying such property, desire to continue to receive electrical, communication or other similar or associated service, they or such occupant shall provide all necessary facility changes on their premises so as to receive such service from the lines of the supplying utility or utilities at a new location, subject to applicable rules, regulations and tariffs of the respective utility or utilities on file with the public utilities commission of the state of California, and to the requirements of state laws and city ordinances.
Notification shall be made by mailing a copy of the ordinance codified herein, together with a copy of this chapter to the affected utilities and to affected property owners as shown on the last equalized tax roll of the county of El Dorado.
8. All new buildings in district number 7 shall after the adoption of the ordinance codified herein have the wiring placed underground to the nearest existing utility pole. (Ord. 1589, 10-8-2002)