Director of Public Works Authorized to Issue Permits. | |
Definitions—Pay Phone Service Provider; Permittee. | |
Department to Adopt Regulations. | |
Investigation and Inspection—Rules and Regulations. | |
Unlawful Without Permits. | |
Application for Permit. | |
Permit and Inspection Fee. | |
Permit. | |
Separate Permits Required for Street or Sidewalk Excavation and Electrical Work. | |
Permittee Shall Make Payments to the City and County of San Francisco. | |
Nonliability of San Francisco; Hold Harmless Clause. | |
Permittee Shall Maintain Insurance in Protection of San Francisco. | |
Restoration of Sidewalks and Streets to a Condition Satisfactory to the Department of Public Works. | |
Board of Supervisors Right of Approval and Revocation. | |
The Director of Public Works is hereby authorized and empowered to issue permits, revocable at his or her discretion, to a pay phone service provider for the installation and maintenance of public pay telephones on public sidewalks within the City and County of San Francisco. In considering the issuance of permits for such public pay telephones, the Director of Public Works shall give due regard to recommendations of the Interdepartmental Staff Committee on Traffic and Transportation (ISCOTT).
(Added by Ord. 122-70, App. 4/17/70; amended by Ord. 287-92, App. 9/16/92)
(a) A "pay phone service provider" shall mean any person, firm or corporation who owns pay phones or manages and operates a business that directly provides pay phone service.
(b) For purposes of this Article, a "permittee" shall mean a pay phone service provider who holds a valid permit granted by the City and County, through its Director of Public Works, to install and maintain public pay phones on public sidewalks in the City and County of San Francisco.
(Added by Ord. 287-92, App. 9/16/92)
(a) The Director of Public Works shall adopt such rules and regulations as it may deem necessary for the public welfare regarding the locations of public pay telephones. Such regulations may include, but not be limited to, a requirement that no person, firm or corporation may install or maintain a public telephone in any location when such location, use or maintenance endangers the safety of persons or property, unreasonably interferes with public utility purposes, public transportation purposes, or other government use, or when such public telephone unreasonably interferes with or impedes the flow of pedestrian or vehicular traffic, the ingress or egress of any residence, place of business, any legally parked or stopped vehicles, use of poles, posts, traffic signs or signals, police or fire callboxes, transit shelters, sidewalk elevators, mailboxes, handicapped ramps, or other facilities permitted at or near the proposed location.
(b) Upon adoption of such rules and regulations by the Director of Public Works, copies of the rules and regulations shall be kept on file at the Department of Public Works and shall be made available to any person upon request.
(Added by Ord. 287-92, App. 9/16/92)
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