"Encroachment"means and includes any obstruction, tower, pole, pole line, pipe, fence, wire, cable, conduit, stand or building, or any structure or object of any kind or character not particularly mentioned in this Division 1, which is placed in, along, under, over or across the highway. This section does not apply to the temporary use of the highway for ordinary maintenance of any existing authorized or permitted encroachment; nor to the suspension or stringing on existing pole lines of additional cables, wires, transmission lines, conduits or service connections solely for telephone or electric power purposes.
(Ord. 89-20, 8/8/1989)