The provisions of this chapter apply to permits for the making
or causing to be made in any street, of excavations, and for the placing,
constructing, testing, repairing, changing, monitoring, removing or
abandoning of facilities or encroachments. The provisions of this
chapter also apply to written emergency plans for owners or operators
of pipelines used to convey toxic, corrosive or flammable liquids
and mandatory membership in a one-call notification system.
(Prior code § 7106.01)
When a one-call notification system is operational in the incorporated
territory of the city, no person shall maintain and operate a pipeline
designed to carry hazardous substances below the surface of a street
unless such person is a member of the system. Such person shall provide
to the city engineer such proof as required that the person is a member
of the system in the city. For the purpose of this section, electrical
facilities shall not be considered hazardous.
(Prior code § 7106.02)
The city engineer shall require all the lines for the transmission
and distribution of standard television or audio signals to be placed
underground in streets when all power and telephone lines are underground,
and shall also require underground installation in all instances except
where the applicant provides satisfactory proof of permission to use
existing pole lines or where the city engineer finds that the remoteness
of the area or other conditions render underground installation impractical
or infeasible.
(Prior code § 7106.14)
The following minimum depths of cover below existing, finished
or proposed grade shall be required for all underground pipelines
within the roadway area:
A. Twenty-four
inches for service pipelines;
B. Thirty-six
inches for all pipelines in streets, except pipelines designed to
carry hazardous substances and service pipelines;
C. Forty-two
inches in streets for pipelines designed to carry hazardous substances
such as, but not limited to, gasoline, fuel oil, butane, propane or
chemicals;
D. Forty-two
inches for electric and natural gas facilities in streets.
(Prior code § 7106.04)
Block valves shall be installed on each new main line at locations
along the pipeline system that will minimize damage from accidental
product discharge. Such location shall be appropriate for the terrain
and the population density of the area.
(Prior code § 7106.06)
A permittee shall refill an excavation in the manner which is
satisfactory to the city engineer, and is most effective to accomplish
thorough consolidation and enable the street to be restored to a condition
equivalent to that in which it was prior to the excavation.
(Prior code § 7106.10)
Immediately upon completion of the work necessitating the excavation,
facility or encroachment permitted by any permit issued, the permittee
shall promptly and in a workmanlike manner restore the area affected
by his or her activity to a condition satisfactory to the city engineer.
(Prior code § 7106.09)
Upon completion of the refilling of the excavation, or completion of the cut or fill, the permittee shall so notify the city engineer in writing on a form prescribed by the city engineer. Whenever a plat was required by Section
12.20.030 and there were substantial deviations approved during the work from the dimensions or locations as shown on the plat, the permittee shall transmit to the city engineer a concise as-built plat upon completion of his or her work, showing the accurate location, depth and size of the facility or encroachment so laid, removed or abandoned.
(Prior code § 7106.11)
Every application shall contain a statement, signed by the applicant,
that if any facility or encroachment placed in the excavation, or
the facility or encroachment for which a permit is issued, interferes
with the future use of the street by the general public, then the
applicant and his or her successors or assigns will, at his or her
own expense, remove or relocate to a location satisfactory to the
city engineer such facility or encroachment. The statement signed
by the applicant will not apply in cases when the applicant has an
easement superior to the street easement at the time of application
and can furnish evidence, when required, of such superior easement.
(Prior code § 7106.12)
A. Each
applicant for a permit to abandon in place or remove any facility
or encroachment in the street shall do so under terms and conditions
prescribed by the city engineer. The permit application shall include
a plat or other suitable means describing the facility or encroachment
to be abandoned or removed, and indicating its exact location. Permission
to abandon a facility or encroachment without removing shall be subject
to removal within one year after the effective date of the abandonment
if the facility or encroachment may interfere with a present or future
public improvement. If it is determined that the facility or encroachment
should be removed, the permittee or its successor in interest shall
remove it at its expense, or pay the city for the cost of such removal.
The permittee shall leave any abandoned facility or encroachment in
a safe condition.
B. In
addition to the foregoing, abandonment in place of a pipeline used
to convey toxic, corrosive or flammable liquids will be subject to
the following requirements. The pipeline shall be thoroughly purged
of liquids and vapors and filled with an inert material that will
remain in a solid or semisolid state if any portion of the pipeline
is cut or removed in the future. The permittee shall file a certificate
with the city engineer that the requirements of this section have
been met, and the facility has been left in a safe condition.
(Prior code § 7106.16; Ord. 699 § 2, 1985)
The city engineer may establish such requirements as he or she
may find necessary to apply to the work to be done by any person in
order to prevent interference with users of the street and with holders
of other permits.
(Prior code § 7106.15)
Nothing in Division I and Chapters
12.36 and
12.40 prohibits any person from maintaining, by virtue of any law, ordinance or permit, any facility or encroachment in any street, or from making such excavation as may be necessary for the preservation of life or property if the person making such excavation applies for a permit not later than the next business day.
(Prior code § 7106.13)