[Ord. No. 5045 § 1, 8-14-2008]
As used in Sections
635.170 —
635.205, the following terms shall mean:
ABANDONED EQUIPMENT OR FACILITIESAny equipment materials, apparatuses, devices or facilities that are:
1. Declared abandoned by the owner of such equipment or facilities;
2. No longer in active use, physically disconnected from a portion of the operating facility or any other facility that is in use or in service, and no longer capable of being used for the same or similar purpose for which the equipment, apparatuses or facilities were installed; or
3. No longer in active use and the owner of such equipment or facilities fails to respond within thirty (30) days to a written notice sent by the City.
DEGRADATIONThe actual or deemed reduction in the useful life of the public right-of-way resulting from the cutting, excavation or restoration of the public right-of-way.
EMERGENCYIncludes, but is not limited to, the following:
1. An unexpected or unplanned outage, cut, rupture, leak or any other failure of a video service facility that prevents or significantly jeopardizes the ability of a public utility to provide service to customers;
2. An unexpected or unplanned outage, cut, rupture, leak or any other failure of a video service facility that results or could result in danger to the public or a material delay or hindrance to the provision of service to the public if the outage, cut, rupture, leak or any other such failure of video service facilities is not immediately repaired, controlled, stabilized or rectified; or
3. Any occurrence involving a video service facility that a reasonable person could conclude under the circumstances that immediate and undelayed action by the video service provider is necessary and warranted.
EXCAVATIONAny act by which earth, asphalt, concrete, sand, gravel, rock or any other material in or on the ground is cut into, dug, uncovered, removed or otherwise displaced by means of any tools, equipment or explosives, except that the following shall not be deemed excavation:
1. Any de minimis displacement or movement of ground caused by pedestrian or vehicular traffic;
2. The replacement of utility poles and related equipment at the existing general location that does not involve either a street or sidewalk cut; or
3. Any other activity which does not disturb or displace surface conditions of the earth, asphalt, concrete, sand, gravel, rock or any other material in or on the ground.
MANAGEMENT COSTS OR RIGHTS-OF-WAY MANAGEMENT COSTSThe actual costs the City reasonably incurs in managing its public rights-of-way, including such costs, if incurred, as those associated with the following:
1. Issuing, processing and verifying right-of-way permit applications;
2. Inspecting job sites and restoration projects;
3. Protecting or moving video service provider construction equipment after reasonable notification to the video service provider during public right-of-way work;
4. Determining the adequacy of public right-of-way restoration;
5. Restoring work inadequately performed after providing notice and the opportunity to correct the work; and
6. Revoking right-of-way permits.
Right-of-way management costs shall be the same for all entities doing similar work. Management costs or rights-of-way management costs shall not include payment by a video service provider for the use or rent of the public right-of-way, degradation of the public right-of-way or any costs as outlined in paragraphs (1) to (6) of this Subdivision which are incurred by the City as a result of use by users other than video service provider, the fees and cost of litigation relating to the interpretation of this Section. |
MANAGING THE PUBLIC RIGHT-OF-WAYThe actions the City takes, through reasonable exercise of its Police powers, to impose rights, duties and obligations on all users of the right-of-way, including the City, in a reasonable, competitively neutral and non-discriminatory and uniform manner, reflecting the distinct engineering, construction, operation, maintenance and public work and safety requirements applicable to the various users of the public right-of-way, provided that such rights, duties and obligations shall not conflict with any Federal law or regulation. In managing the public right-of-way, the City shall:
1. Require construction performance bonds or insurance coverage or demonstration of self- insurance at the option of the City or if the video service provider has twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000.00) in net assets and does not have a history of permitting non-compliance within the City as defined by the City, then the video service provider shall not be required to provide such bonds or insurance;
2. Establish coordination and timing requirements that do not impose a barrier to entry;
3. Require video service providers to submit, for right-of-way projects requiring excavation within the public right-of-way, whether initiated by the City or any video service provider, project data in the form maintained by the user and in a reasonable time after receipt of the request based on the amount of data requested;
4. Establish right-of-way permitting requirements for street excavation;
5. Establish removal requirements for abandoned equipment or facilities, if the existence of such facilities prevents or significantly impairs right-of-way use, repair, excavation or construction;
6. Establish permitting requirements for structures or equipment for video service provider facilities in the public right-of-way;
7. Establish standards for street restoration in order to lessen the impact of degradation to the public right-of-way; and
8. Impose permit conditions to protect public safety.
PUBLIC RIGHT-OF-WAYThe area on, below or above a public roadway, highway, street or alleyway in which the City has an ownership interest, but not including:
1. The airwaves above a public right-of-way with regard to cellular or other non-wire telecommunications or broadcast service;
2. Easements obtained by utilities or private easements in platted subdivisions or tracts;
3. Railroad rights-of-way and ground utilized or acquired for railroad facilities; or
4. Poles, pipes, cables, conduits, wires, optical cables or other means of transmission, collection or exchange of communications, information, substances, data or electronic or electrical current or impulses utilized by a municipally owned or operated utility pursuant to Chapter
91, RSMo., or pursuant to a Charter form of government.
PUBLIC UTILITYEvery cable television service, video service authorization holder, pipeline corporation, gas corporation, electrical corporation, rural electric cooperative, telecommunications company, water corporation, heating or refrigerating corporation or sewer corporation under the jurisdiction of the Public Service Commission; every municipally owned or operated utility pursuant to Chapter
91, RSMo., or pursuant to a Charter form of government or cooperatively owned or operated utility pursuant to Chapter
394, RSMo.; every street light maintenance district; every privately owned utility; and every other entity, regardless of its form of organization or governance, whether for profit or not, which in providing a public utility type of service for members of the general public utilizes pipes, cables, conduits, wires, optical cables or other means of transmission, collection or exchange of communications, information, substances, data or electronic or electrical current or impulses in the collection, exchange or dissemination of its product or services through the public rights-of-way.
RIGHT-OF-WAY PERMITA permit issued by the City authorizing the performance of excavation work in its public right-of-way.