CHAPTER 3
UNDERGROUND UTILITY DISTRICTS
ARTICLE 1. IN GENERAL
SECTION:
§3801 Purpose Of Adoption Of Utility District Enabling Procedure
§3800 TITLE
This Chapter shall be known and cited as the CITY UNDERGROUND UTILITY DISTRICT ENABLING CHAPTER. (Ord. 608, §1, adopted 1972)
§3801 PURPOSE OF ADOPTION OF UTILITY DISTRICT ENABLING PROCEDURE
Said Underground Utility District enabling procedure is adopted to provide for the removal of existing overhead utility facilities and the installation of underground facilities in underground utility districts created pursuant to this Chapter. (Ord. 608, §1, adopted 1972)
§3802 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. "Commission" shall mean the Public Utilities Commission of the State of California.
B. "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 §3811 of this ordinance.
C. "Person" shall mean and include individuals, firms, corporations, partnerships and their agents and employees.
D. "Poles, overhead wires and associated overhead structures" 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.
E. "Utility" shall include all persons or entities supplying electric, communication or similar or associated service by means of electrical materials or devices. (Ord. 608, §1, adopted 1972)