(A) Any poles, wires, cable lines, conduits or other properties of the grantee to be constructed or installed in streets, shall be so constructed or installed only at such locations and in such manner as shall be approved by the Road Commissioner acting in the exercise of his or her reasonable discretion.
(B) The grantee shall not install or erect any facilities or apparatus in or on other public property, places or rights-of-way or within any privately-owned area within the county which has not yet become a public street but is designated or delineated as a proposed public street on any tentative subdivision map approved by the county, except those installed or erected upon public utility facilities now existing, without obtaining the prior written approval of the Road Commissioner.
(C) In those areas and portions of the county where the transmission or distribution facilities of both the public utility providing telephone service and those of the utility providing electric service are underground or hereafter may be placed underground, then the grantee shall likewise construct, operate and maintain all of its transmission and distribution facilities underground. For the purposes of this division, “underground” shall include a partial underground system, e.g., streamlining. Amplifiers in grantee’s transmission and distribution lines may be in appropriate housings upon the surface of the ground as approved by the Road Commissioner. The county shall not in any manner be responsible for any costs incurred by the grantee in placing the grantee’s facilities underground.
(D) Any poles, wires, cable lines, conduits or other properties of the grantee to be constructed or installed in streets shall be so located as to cause minimum interference with the proper uses of streets, and cause minimum interference with the rights and reasonable convenience of property owners who adjoin any of the streets.
(E) In case of disturbance of any street, the grantee shall, at its own cost and expense and in a manner approved by the Road Commissioner, replace and restore such street in as good a condition as before the work involving such disturbance was done.
(F) Any poles or other fixture placed in any street by the grantee shall be placed in such manner as not to interfere with the usual travel on the public way.
(G) No poles or other wire-holding structures shall be erected by the grantee without prior approval of the Road Commissioner with regard to location, height, type and any other pertinent aspect. However, no location of any pole or wire-holding structure of the grantee shall be a vested interest, and the poles or structures shall be removed or modified by the grantee, at its own expense, whenever the Road Commissioner determines that the public convenience would be enhanced thereby.
(H) Where the county or a public utility serving the county desires to make use of the poles or other wire-holding structures of the grantee but agreement therefor with the grantee cannot be reached, the Board of Supervisors may require the grantee to permit the use for the consideration and upon such terms as the Board shall determine to be just and reasonable, if the Board determines that the use would enhance the public convenience and would not unduly interfere with the grantee’s operations.
(I) The county shall have the right to supervise all construction or installation work performed subject to the provisions of any franchise and make an inspection as it shall find necessary to insure compliance with the terms of any franchise and other pertinent provisions of law.
(J) Upon request of the Board of Supervisors, the grantee shall make available one channel for educational television, public service television or any other non-commercial service for the benefit of the residents of the county.
(1966 Code, § 6A-17) (Ord. 312, § 17; Ord. 967, §§ 3, 4, 2018; Ord. 968, §§ 3, 4, 2018)