(A) The utility system and other components of the facilities erected by utility business within the city shall conform to established grades of streets, alleys and sidewalks, and be so located as to cause minimum interference with other public utilities located in or upon public property, and to cause minimum interference with the rights or reasonable convenience of property owners who adjoin public property.
(B) A business shall conduct its work hereunder in such manner as to cause as little interference as possible with pedestrian and vehicular traffic, and shall abide by scheduling directions, if any, given by the city.
(C) A utility business shall, upon reasonable notice and at no cost or expense to the city, remove, locate and relocate its facilities in, on, over or under public property in such manner as the city may at any time require for the purpose of facilitating the construction, reconstruction, maintenance, repair or change in grade of any public improvement on, in or about any such public property, for the purpose of promoting the efficient operation of any such improvement, or for the purposes of facilitating the vacation and/or redevelopment of public right-of-way by the city.
(D) A utility business shall not place its facilities in the public property where the same will interfere with the normal use or maintenance of any public improvement including but not limited to streets, alleys, sidewalks, traffic control devices, sanitary sewers, storm sewers, storm drains or water mains or any other existing public utility facility.
(E) Upon request, a utility business agrees to assist in locating underground facilities which are part of its system. As a condition of this chapter, a utility business shall enroll as a member of the “Iowa One-Call System” and shall respond to all requests and notifications placed to the toll free “One-Call” number.
(F) Installation, repair or replacement work completed by a utility business on any facilities requiring excavation or public property or public right-of-way shall require restoration and replacement of surface vegetation with sod or other materials approved by the City Engineer in conformance with city ordinances and in accordance with standard local practices for placing sod or other materials.
(Ord. 99-13, passed - -1999)