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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd 08801 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 ORDINANCE NO. 880 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF BURLINGAME AMENDING CHAPTER 12.16 OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE AND ESTABLISH- ING REGULATIONS AND PROCEDURES FOR THE REMOVAL OF OVERHEAD UTILITY FACILITIES AND THE INSTALLATION OF UNDERGROUND FACILITIES IN UNDERGROUND UTILITY DISTRICTS. The City Council of the City of Burlingame does ordain as follows: Section 1. Chapter 12.16 of the Burlingame Municipal Code is amended to read and provide as follows: CHAPTER 12.16 UNDERGROUND UTILITY DISTRICTS 12.16.010 DEFINITIONS. Whenever in this ordinance the words or phrases hereinafter in this section defined are used, they shall have the respective meanings assigned to them in the following definitions: a. The word "City" shall mean the City of Burlingame, a municipal corporation of the State of California. b. The word "Council" shall mean the City Council of the the City of Burlingame. C. "Commission" shall mean the Public Utilities Commission of the State of California. d. "Underground Utility District" or "District" shall mean that area in the City within which poles, overhead wires, and associated overhead structures are prohibited as such area is described in a resolution adopted pursuant to the provisions of Section 12.16.025 of this chapter. e. "Person" shall mean and include individuals, firms, corporations, partnerships, and their agents and employees. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 ti 19 20 21 22 I, 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 f. "Poles, overhead wires and associated overhead structure shall mean poles, towers, supports, wires, conductors, guys, stubs, platforms, crossarms, braces, transformers, insulators, cutouts, switches, communication circuits, appliances, attachments and appurtenances located above- ground within a District and used or useful in supplying electric, communication or similar or associated service. g. "Utility" shall include all persons or entities supply electric, communication or similar or associated service by means of electrical materials or devices. 12.16.020 PUBLIC HEARING BY COUNCIL. The Council may from time to time call public hearings to ascertain whether the public necessity, health, safety or welfare requires the removal of poles, overhead wires and associated overhead structures within designated areas of the City and the underground installation of wires and facilities for supplying electric, communication, or similar or associated service. The City Clerk shall notify all affected property owners as shown on the last equalized assessment roll and utilities concerned by mail of the time and place of such hearings at least ten (10) days prior to the date thereof. Each such hear- ing shall be open to the public and may be continued from time to time. At each such hearing all persons interested shall be given an opportunity to be heard. The decision of the Council shall be final and conclusive. 12.16.025 COUNCIL MAY DESIGNATE UNDERGROUND UTILITY DISTRICTS BY RESOLUTION. If, after any such public hearing the Council finds that the public necessity, health, safety or welfare requires such removal and such underground installation within a - 2 - 1 2 3 4 5 ' 6 7 8 9 10 PI 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 �� 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 designated area, the Council shall, by resolution, declare such designated area an Underground Utility District and order such removal and underground installation. Such resolution shall include a description of the area comprising such district and shall fix the time within which such removal and underground installation shall be accomplished and within which affected property owners must be ready to receive underground service. A reasonable time shall be allowed for such removal and under- ground installation, having due regard for the availability of labor, materials and equipment necessary for such removal and for the installation of such underground facilities as may be occasioned thereby. 12.16.030 UNLAWFUL ACTS. Whenever the Council creates an Underground Utility District and orders the removal of poles, overhead wires and associated overhead structures therein as provided in Section 12.16.025 hereof, it shall be unlawful for any person or utility to erect, construct, place, keep, maintain, continue, employ or operate poles, overhead wires and associated overhead structures in the District after the date when said overhead facilities are required to be removed by such resolution, except as said overhead facilities may be required to furnish service to an owner or occupant of property prior to the perform- ance by such owner or occupant of the underground work necessary for such owner or occupant to continue to receive utility service as provided in Section 12.16.060 hereof, and for such reasonable time required to remove said facilities after said work has been performed, and except as otherwise provided in this chapter. - 3 - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 I 27 28 29 30 I' 31 32 12.16.035 EXCEPTION, EMERGENCY OR UNUSUU CIRCUMSTANCES. Notwithstanding the provisions of this chapter, overhead facilities Imay be installed and maintained for a period, not to exceed ten (10) days, without authority of the Council, in order to provide emergency service. The City Engineer may grant special permission, on such terms as the Council may deem appropriate, in cases of unusual circumstances, without discrimination to any person or utility, to erect, construct, install, maintain and use or operate poles, overhead wires and associated overhead structures. 12.16.040 OTHER EXCEPTIONS. This chapter and any resolut adopted pursuant to Section 12.16.025 hereof shall not, unless otherwise provided in such resolution, apply to the following types of facilities: a. Any municipal facilities or equipment installed under the supervision and to the satisfaction of the City Engineer. b. Poles or electroliers used exclusively for street lighting. C. Overhead wires (exclusive of supporting structures) crossing any portion of a District within which overhead' wires have been prohibited, or connecting to buildings on the perimeter of a District, when such wires originate in an area from which poles, overhead wires and associat� structures are not prohibited. d. Poles, overhead wires and associated overhead structures used for the transmission of electric energy at nominal voltages in excess of 34,500 volts. e. Overhead wires attached to the exterior surface of a - 4 - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 i 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 building by means of a bracket or other fixture and extending from one location on the building to another location on the same building or to an adjacent building without crossing any public street. f. Antennae, associated equipment and supporting structures, used by a utility for furnishing communcation services. g. Equipment appurtenant to underground facilities, such as surface mounted transformers, pedestal mounted terminal boxes and meter cabinets, and concealed ducts. h. Temporary poles, overhead wires and associated overhead structures used or to be used in conjunction with con- struction projects. 12.16.050 NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNERS AND UTILITY COMPANIES. jWithin ten (10) days after the effective date of a resolution adopted pursuant to Section 12.16.025 hereof, the City Clerk shall notify all affected utilities and all persons owning real property within the District created by said resolution of the adoption thereof. Said City Clerk shall further notify such affected property owners of the necessity that, if they or any person occupying such property desire to continue to receive electric, communication, or similar or associated service, they or such occupant shall provide all necessary facility changes on their premises so as to receive such service from the lines of the (supplying utility or utilities at a new location, subject to applicable rules, regulations and tariffs of the respective utility or utilities on file with the Commission. Notification by the City Clerk shall be made by mailing a copy of the resolution adopted pursuant to Section 12.16.025, - 5 - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 i 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 k 17 1' 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 together with a copy of this chapter, to affected property owners las such are shown on the last equalized assessment roll and to the affected utilities. 12.16.055 RESPONSIBILITY OF UTILITY COMPANIES. If under- ground construction is necessary to provide utility service within la District created by any resolution adopted pursuant to Section 12.16.025, the supplying utility shall furnish that portion of the conduits, conductors and associated equipment required to be furnished by it under its applicable rules, regulations and tarif on file with the Commission. 12.16.060 RESPONSIBILITY OF PROPERTY OWNERS. a. Every person owning, operating, leasing, occupying or renting a building or structure within a District shall perform construction and provide that portion of the service connection on his property between the facilitie referred to in Section 12.16.055 and the termination facility on or within said building or structure being served, all in accordance with applicable rules, regu- lations and tariffs of the respective utility or utilities on file with the Commission. b. In the event any person owning, operating, leasing, occupying or renting said property does not comply with the provisions of subparagraph a., of Section 12.16.060 within the time provided for in the resolution enacted pursuant to Section 12.16.025 hereof, the City Engineer shall post written notice on the property, being served and thirty (30) days thereafter shall have the authority to order the disconnection and removal of any and all overhead service wires and associated facilities supply- - 6 - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 ing utility service to said property. 12.16.070 RESPONSIBILITY OF CITY. City shall remove at its own expense all City -owned equipment from all poles required to be (removed hereunder in ample time to enable the owner or user of (such poles to remove the same within the time specified in the (resolution enacted pursuant to Section 12.16.025 hereof. 12.16.080 EXTENSION OF TIME. In the event that any act required by this ordinance or by a resolution adopted pursuant to Section 12.16.025 cannot be performed within the time provided on account of shortage of materials, war, restraint by public author- ities, strikes, labor disturbances, civil disobedience, or any other circumstances beyond the control of the actor, then the time within which such act will be accomplished shall be extended for a period equivalent to the time of such limitation. 12.16.085 PRIOR DESIGNATION. The area particularly des- cribed as follows: California Drive from Burlingame Avenue to Peninsula Avenue, and Howard Avenue between California Drive and Lorton Avenue; previously designated an "Underground Utility District" by Ordinance 803, adopted April 20, 1964, is hereby declared an "Underground Utility District" in conformity with the provisions of this chapter. 12.16.090 PENALTY. It shall be unlawful for any person to violate any provision or to fail to comply with any of the require menta of this chapter. Any person violating any provision of this chapter or failing to comply with any of its requirements shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereo shall be punished by a fine not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or by imprisonment not exceeding six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Each such person shall be deemed - 7 - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 Iguilty of a separate offense for each day during any portion of (which any violation of any of the provisions of this chapter is committed, continued or permitted by such person, and shall be punishable therefor as provided for in this chapter. Section 2. Constitutionality. If any section, sub -section, sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance. The Council hereby declares that it would have adopted the ordinance and each section sub -section, sentence, clause or phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, sub -sections, sentences, Iclauses or phrases be declared invalid. Section 3. Publication. The City Clerk is hereby directed to cause this ordinance to be published by one insertion in the (Advance -Star, a newspaper of general circulation printed, land circulated in City and hereby designated for that purpose by Ithe Council. Section 4. Effective date. This ordinance shall take and be in force thirty (30) days from and after its adoption. W. H. DIEDERICHSEN, MAYOR I, Herbert K. White, City Clerk, do hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance was introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council held on the 1st day of April, 1968, and adopted then after at a regular meeting of the City Council held on the 15th day of April, 1968, by the following votes: AYES: Councilmen: Diederichsen-George-Johnson-Martin. NOES: Councilmen: None Absent Councilmen: Crosby. HERBERT K. WHITE, CITY -CLERK