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)
The Director of Public Works shall make such investigations and inspections as he deems necessary or appropriate to the issuance of permits hereunder, shall prescribe the procedures to be followed in the issuance of permits and installation, and shall have the power and authority to adopt and enforce such rules and regulations as he deems necessary or appropriate to the proper location, design, operation and maintenance of public telephone booths on sidewalks under the conditions and restrictions herein imposed.
(Added by Ord. 122-70, App. 4/17/70)
It shall be unlawful to install and maintain any public telephone on a public sidewalk in the City and County of San Francisco without first obtaining the permit to do so and paying the fees and deposits required for said permit in accordance with the provisions of this Article.
(Added by Ord. 122-70, App. 4/17/70; amended by Ord. 287-92, App. 9/16/92)
A separate written application for a permit is required for the installation and maintenance of a public telephone or group of telephones to be installed on the public sidewalk fronting each lot or property under one ownership. Any subsequent installation of additional telephones fronting the same lot or property shall require a separate application and permit. Application for permit shall be filed with the Director of Public Works and shall contain the name and residence or business address of the person, firm or corporation making such application, a brief description of the location, the number and type of each public telephone to be installed and maintained, and such other appropriate information as the Director may require. Each application shall be accompanied by two copies of a map of the site, drawn to scale and showing the location of the proposed installation, the location of all surface facilities such as poles, hydrants, street lighting electroliers, vehicular parking or stopping zones, parking meters, underground facilities, building entrances, driveway entrances and the width of the sidewalk. Each application described herein shall also be accompanied by a general deposit in the sum of $500 for each public telephone included in the application, or in lieu thereof, the application shall be accompanied by a bond executed and filed with the Department of Public Works in a penal sum equal to the amount of $500 per telephone included in the application. Said bond shall be with a surety company authorized to do business in the State of California as surety thereon, running in favor of the City and County of San Francisco, conditioned that the applicant shall make all payments required to be made under and pursuant to this Article, and while such general deposit is maintained at the said sum of $500 per telephone or while no breach of condition of said bond shall occur said applicant shall be required to comply with all of the permitting and other provisions of this Article.
(Added by Ord. 122-70, App. 4/17/70; amended by Ord. 287-92, App. 9/16/92)
All required inspections in connection with public telephones on public sidewalks shall be made by the Department of Public Works at the expense of the permittee. In addition to maintaining the deposit or bond required by Section 953 of this Article, the permittee shall pay to the Department of Public Works a fee to be set by the Director of Public Works in an amount reasonably calculated to cover the estimated cost of administration and inspection services, including salary and overhead costs incurred by the Department of Public Works in connection with issuance of the public telephone permit.
(Added by Ord. 122-70, App. 4/17/70; amended by Ord. 287-92, App. 9/16/92)
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