The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
"Central office"
means a utility facility where messages, impressions, pictures or signals are generated, received or controlled.
"Convert."
To convert an overhead utility distribution line or service connection means to remove the overhead utility distribution line or service connection and provide the same service with an underground utility distribution line or service connection installed at the same or at a different location.
"Distribution substation"
means a utility facility where electric voltage is transformed for distribution through a substation transformer.
"Service connection"
means conductors transmitting utility service from a utility distribution line to a customer's riser or service entrance.
"Substation transformer"
means a utility facility that transforms electric voltage to the level supplied to the distribution system.
"Utility"
means a public utility as defined in AS 42.05.701 furnishing electrical service or telecommunications service as defined in AS 42.05.701.
"Utility distribution line"
means all or any part of a conductor and supports owned or operated by a utility and used:
1. 
To transmit no more than 69 kilovolts of electric energy; or
2. 
To transmit messages, impressions, pictures or signals by means of electricity or electromagnetic waves;
between a distribution substation or central office and the lot line of a customer's premises, excluding auxiliary equipment such as aboveground transformers, switching devices, pad-mounted distribution facilities and CATV power supplies.
(CAC 3.08.380; AO No. 84-62)
The ordinance to proceed with a special assessment district to convert overhead utility distribution lines shall designate:
A. 
The date when service by underground utility distribution lines shall commence;
B. 
The date when service by overhead utility distribution lines shall cease; and
C. 
The date when all converted overhead utility distribution lines and related service connections shall be removed.
(CAC 3.08.390; AO No. 84-62)
A. 
The costs to be assessed for converting an overhead utility distribution line shall be determined in accordance with the applicable tariff or rules or regulations of operation of the utility owning or operating the utility distribution line, or, if the applicable tariff or rules or regulations of operation do not determine the cost, in accordance with chapter 19.30.
B. 
The cost of converting a service connection to be assessed under section 19.60.040B shall be determined in accordance with the tariff or rules or regulations of operation of the utility whose service is provided through the service connection, or, if the applicable tariff or rules or regulations of operation do not determine the cost, in accordance with chapter 19.30.
(CAC 3.08.400; AO No. 84-62)
A. 
The cost of converting an overhead utility distribution line shall be assessed to each property adjacent to the easement or right-of-way containing the overhead distribution line in proportion to the property's linear frontage along that part of the easement or right-of-way where the overhead utility distribution line is converted.
B. 
The cost of converting a service connection to be assessed under section 19.60.050B shall be assessed to the property served by the service connection.
(CAC 3.08.400; AO No. 84-62)
A. 
Except as provided in the applicable tariff or rules or regulations of operation of the utility providing the service, or in subsection B of this section, the owner of the property shall be responsible for converting any service connection to his or her property from a utility distribution line that is converted under this chapter, and the owner shall bear the expense of the service connection conversion.
B. 
Except as the utility's applicable tariff or rules or regulations of operation provide otherwise, a property owner may request that the utility convert the service connection to his or her property for that utility's service when the utility distribution line providing that service is converted under this chapter, and add the cost of converting the service connection to the assessment on that property under this chapter. The request, including an authorization to enter upon the property to perform the conversion work, shall be presented in writing at the place and within the time specified in the ordinance to proceed with the special assessment district.
(AO No. 84-62)
For an assessment district to convert overhead utility distribution lines, the notice required by section 19.20.090 shall give notice of the provisions of section 19.60.050, and state that, after the date specified for that purpose in the ordinance to proceed with the assessment district, all overhead service connections shall be disconnected from the utility distribution lines converted under the assessment district.
(AO No. 84-62)
A. 
The owner of an overhead utility distribution line or service connection that is converted under this chapter shall remove the utility distribution line or service connection no later than the date specified for its removal in the ordinance to proceed under section 19.60.020.
B. 
Any overhead utility distribution line or service connection maintained in violation of subsection A of this section is a public nuisance and may be abated as such. A violation of subsection A of this section also is subject to the penalties and remedies in chapter 21.25.
(CAC 3.08.450)