This chapter is enacted to ensure that public utility providers are afforded their rights to access and use of public rights-of-way, and in such a manner so as to not endanger the public health, safety, and welfare, or to negatively affect property values due to the aesthetic interests of the city and private property owners with respect to the installation of new facilities. In furtherance of those objectives and in order to ensure those rights, the city must:
(A) Review and approve all plans for the installation of utility wires, cables, pipes, conduits, equipment cabinets, consoles or other equipment and housings used for the transmission of electrical current impulses, sounds, voices or communications, water, sewage, gas or other fuel, on, over or beneath the surface of land within the city;
(B) Prohibit such installation except in compliance with the approved plans, so as to make the most efficient use of those limited areas available for the installation of utilities securing the public health, safety and welfare;
(C) Require removal and relocation of the facilities when necessary; and
(D) Provide a penalty for a violation.
(Ord. 580, passed 3-9-2009)