ARTICLE 18:
UTILITY FACILITIES

Sec. 900.	Definitions.
Sec. 901.	Permits—Consent.
Sec. 902.	Locations and Space Assignments of Utility Facilities.
Sec. 903.	Poles to be Available for Installation of Traffic Signals, Etc.—Responsibility—Removal—Installation of Street Lights on Trolley Poles.
Sec. 904.	Erection of Poles in Proximity to Light Poles Prohibited.
Sec. 905.	Location of Facilities to be Furnished.
Sec. 906.	Notice to Remove or Relocate Utility Facilities.
Sec. 907.	Owners Must Remove in Required Time.
Sec. 908.	Failure—Work May Be Done by Director, Director of Transportation or General Manager.
Sec. 909.	Agreement with Owner or Operator.
Sec. 910.	Provision for Administration, Etc.—Cost.
Sec. 911.	Underground Districts Designated.
Sec. 912.	Need for Underground District to be Determined.
Sec. 913.	Removal of Overhead Utility Facilities in Designated Districts—Exemptions.
Sec. 914.	Exemptions to Undergrounding.
Sec. 915.	Public Hearing—Notices.
Sec. 916.	Removal of Overhead Utility Facilities—Responsibility for—Cost.
Sec. 917.	Responsibility of Property Owners.
Sec. 918.	Installation of Service Lateral.
Sec. 919.	Failure of Property Owner to Install Conduits.
Sec. 920.	Notice to Property Owner of Declaration of Public Nuisance.
Sec. 921.	Proof of Delivery or Mailing.
Sec. 922.	Hearing.
Sec. 923.	Issuance of a Director's Order.
Sec. 924.	Posting and Service of Order.
Sec. 925.	Forfeiture of Property Owners' Right To Do Work.
Sec. 926.	Assessment for Costs.
Sec. 927.	Report of Costs.
Sec. 928.	Hearing and Confirmation of Report for Special Assessment of Costs.
Sec. 929.	Costs of Abating the Public Nuisance.
Sec. 930.	Underground Public Nuisance Abatement Fund.
Sec. 931.	Compliance, Rescinding Order.
Sec. 932.	Penalty for Each Day Overhead Utility Facilities are Left Standing.
Sec. 933.	Temporary Use of Poles and Overhead Wires in Underground Districts.
Sec. 934.	Removal of Temporary Poles and Overhead Wires.
Sec. 935.	Duties of the Director—Authority to Remove Overhead Utility Facilities.
Sec. 936.	New Construction—Installation of Service.
Sec. 937.	Underground Utility Facilities to be Included in Construction of New Streets.
Sec. 938.	Director May Enter Into Agreement for Joint Construction.
Sec. 939.	Provision for Street Lighting in Plans.
Sec. 940.	Underground Wired Street Lighting, Fire Alarm and Police Communication Facilities to be Included in Plans for Construction of Streets.
Sec. 941.	Cost of Underground Wired Facilities for Street Lighting, Fire Alarm and Police Communication Systems.
Sec. 942.	Money to be Included in Fund When Work Done by City.
Sec. 943.	Underground Wired Facilities for Street Lighting, Fire Alarm and Police Communication Systems to Become Property of City.
Sec. 944.	Declaration of Public Nuisance.

 

SEC. 900. DEFINITIONS.

   Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms in this Article shall be as follows:

   (a)   "Board" shall mean the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco.

   (b)   "City" shall mean the City and County of San Francisco.

   (c)   "City Administrator" means the City Administrator of the City and County of San Francisco.

   (d)   "Department" shall mean the Department of Public Works of the City and County of San Francisco.

   (e)   "Director" shall mean the Director of the Department of Public Works of the City and County of San Francisco.

   (f)   "Director of Transportation" shall mean the Director of the Municipal Transportation Agency of the City and County of San Francisco.

   (g)   "General Manager" shall mean the General Manager of the Public Utilities Commission of the City and County of San Francisco.

   (h)   "Municipal Railway" shall mean the Municipal Railway of the City and County of San Francisco including the tracks, overhead lines and power feeder systems.

   (i)   "Municipal Transportation Agency" shall mean the Municipal Transportation Agency of the City and County of San Francisco.

   (j)   "Owner or Operator" shall mean any person, firm, corporation, or public or private utility, owning, controlling or operating any utility facility upon, in, over or under the streets or places of the City and County of San Francisco.

   (k)   "Places" shall mean any public park or pleasure ground and common which has been dedicated and accepted according to law.

   (l)   "Property" shall mean any real property in the City and County of San Francisco. Where any building or structure on real property is a condominium, planned development, community apartment, or stock corporation, "property" shall mean each separate unit.

   (m)   "Property owner" shall mean any person, firm, association, limited liability corporation, corporation, or other legal entity owning or controlling real property in the City and County of San Francisco. Where any building or structure on real property is a condominium, planned development, community apartment, or stock corporation, "property owner" shall mean any person, firm, association, limited liability corporation, corporation, or other legal entity owning or controlling any unit.

   (n)   "Public Utilities Commission" shall mean the Public Utilities Commission of the City and County of San Francisco.

   (o)   "Serving Company" shall mean the person, firm, corporation or utility supplying the electrical service for electric lighting, heat, power, telephone, telegraph, television signal, or any other type of electrical service.

   (p)   "Shall" is mandatory; "may" is permissive.

   (q)   "Sidewalk" shall mean the area between the curb and the property line, as set forth in Ordinance 1061, entitled "Regulating the widths of Sidewalks" (approved December 18, 1903).

   (r)   "Streets" shall mean the public area, between property lines, of any avenues, highways, boulevards, lanes, roads, parkways, freeways, alleys, crossings or intersections, and courts or other public ways.

   (s)   "Underground" and "Undergrounding" shall mean the complete and permanent removal of the overhead utility facilities defined in subsection(s) hereof, except such utility facilities as are specifically exempted in Section 914; also, a complete installation beneath the surface of a street, public place, or stated area, of such utility facilities.

   (t)   "Underground District" shall mean a street, or streets, public place, or stated area, within which overhead utility facilities, as defined in subsection (s) hereof, shall be prohibited and existing overhead utility facilities shall be removed or converted to an underground installation. New utility facilities, when installed, shall be a complete installation beneath the surface of the street, or streets, public place, or stated area, except such utility facilities as are specifically exempted in Section 914.

   (u)   "Utility facility" shall mean pipes, wires, tracks, conduits, tunnels, poles or other overhead supporting structures, with any appurtenances, or any other structures of any nature, upon, in, over or under the streets or places of the City and County of San Francisco which are used for the purpose of supplying or conveying any services or substances within the limits of the City and County of San Francisco.

(Amended by Ord. 445-84, App. 11/13/84; Ord. 140-07, File No. 070621, App. 6/22/2007)

SEC. 901. PERMITS-CONSENT.

   Every owner or operator of any utility facility before installing, locating or relocating any utility facility shall file with the Director of Public Works a written application for a permit to do such work and obtain a written permit for the work as provided in Article 2.4. In accepting such permit the permittee expressly consents to regulation by any applicable rules or ordinances.

(Added by Ord. 139-72, App. 5/26/72; Ord. 140-07, File No. 070621, App. 6/22/2007)