(A) A registrant must promptly and at its own expense, with due regard for seasonal working conditions, permanently remove and relocate its equipment and facilities in the right-of-way whenever the city requests the removal and relocation, and shall restore the right-of-way to the same condition it was in prior to the removal or relocation. The city may make the requests in order to prevent inference by the company’s equipment or facilities with a present or future city use of the right-of-way; a public improvement undertaken by the city; an economic development project in which the city has an interest or investment; when the public health, safety, and welfare requires it; or when necessary to prevent interference with the safety and convenience or ordinary travel over the right-of-way.
(B) Notwithstanding the forgoing, a person shall not be required to remove of relocate its equipment from any right-of-way which has been vacated in favor of nongovernmental entity to the person therefor.
(Prior Code, § 96.28)