The City Council may authorize any telephone, telegraph, electric light or electric power company to construct and maintain underground conduits, cables and wires for the conduct of the business of such company, in such of the streets of the City as the City Council may deem advisable, and to construct therein and maintain the necessary manholes and house connections and to erect and maintain distributing poles at the termini of the conduits and at suitable distributing points and may give such authority under such conditions, restrictions and limitations as the City Council may impose, to be expressed in the license or permit.
Conduits shall be of suitable kind and construction, such as the City Council shall approve, and the work shall be done in a thorough manner and to the approval of the Superintendent of Streets. The distributing and other poles shall be of such height and other dimensions and of such form and material and so located as to be satisfactory to the City Council and shall be subject to its approval or the approval of any person Council may select.
The surface of a street shall not be disturbed for the purpose of laying, repairing or removing wires or conduits, or erecting or removing distributing or other poles, without a permit from the Superintendent of Streets, indicating the time and place of opening such streets and the time within which such work shall be completed. This provision shall not be construed as requiring any permit for the opening of manholes for the purpose of drawing in, removing or repairing wires and cables.
When an opening is made in a street for any of the purposes mentioned in the preceding section, the portion of the street so opened shall be restored to a condition satisfactory to the Superintendent of Streets and shall be kept in such condition for one year thereafter, and if not so restored and maintained by the company performing the work, the Superintendent of Streets shall cause the same to be done at the expense of such company.
Any company authorized to lay, etc., wires by § 473-15 in laying, repairing or removing its wires or conduits shall not disturb or in any way interfere with electric light wires or any gas or water pipes or sewers, or pipe therewith connected, or any other pipes.
In case the City finds it necessary to construct or enlarge sewers or other public works in streets where conduits are laid which shall require changing the locations of such conduits, the changing, when required by the Commissioner of Public Works, shall be at the expense of the company owning the conduits, who shall forthwith make such changes under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works.
Any company authorized to lay, etc., wires, etc. by § 473-15 shall remove its conduits to other locations whenever ordered to do so by the City Council.
A plan of the exact location of every conduit or relocation thereof granted or ordered by the City Council or Commissioner of Public Works and plans and drawings showing the manner of construction, together with written specifications stating the details of such construction work, shall be filed with the Commissioner of Public Works by the company authorized or ordered to construct or change such conduits, and such exact location or relocation, plans, drawings and specifications shall be approved in writing by the Commissioner of Public Works before any work shall be commenced on any street under any authority granted by virtue of this chapter.
Any company referred to in § 473-15 shall commence the work contemplated by any authority granted to it within 12 months from the granting of the authority, unless restrained by process of law, and shall continue the work with reasonable diligence until suitable conduits have been laid in the location designated in its application for authority and duly granted by the City Council.
Any company referred to in § 473-15 shall not remove its conduits unless permitted to do so by the City Council.
Any authority granted by the City Council may, after notice and hearing, be revoked or altered at any time, without liability on the part of the City therefor. In case any location in any street shall be revoked, a substitute location in some other street that will, in the opinion of the Council, accommodate the service shall be granted.
No permit shall be granted, or if granted, be valid, to disturb the surface of a street for any of the purposes contained in this chapter until such company has executed an agreement in a form satisfactory to and approved by the Commissioner of Public Works with the following conditions:
A. 
In every underground conduit constructed by such company, one duct not less than three inches in diameter shall be reserved and maintained free of expense for the use of the fire, police and telegraph, signal and telephone wires belonging to the City and used exclusively for municipal purposes, and that the Fire Chief of the Fire Department or any person duly authorized by him shall be allowed access to such conduits at all times, and that the City shall be allowed facilities and privileges in putting in and taking out wires equal in all respects to those of such company.
[Amended 7-24-2017 by Ord. No. 17-1006795C-2]
B. 
Such company shall indemnify and save harmless the City against all damages, costs and expense whatever to which the City may be subjected in consequence of the acts or neglect of such company, its agents or servants, or in any manner arising from the rights and privileges granted it by the City.
C. 
In addition to the aforesaid agreement, such company shall, before a street is disturbed for the laying of its wires or conduits, execute a bond with surety or sureties, to be approved in writing by the Mayor, in a penal sum of not less than $10,000, conditioned to fulfill all its agreements with the City and its duties under this chapter, and a new bond of like import may at any time be required by the City Council, which new bond shall be a strengthening bond, unless the surety or sureties on former bonds are expressly released from further liability by vote of the City Council.
D. 
The company will, as soon as its conduits are constructed and ready for use, remove from the street along which conduits are constructed all wires, except those which the Commissioner of Public Works shall by a specific order permit to remain.
E. 
The company will at once comply with any change in its conduits, manholes or poles that the City Council may, after a hearing duly appointed, order.