§ 8-3. Location and construction of facilities generally—Undergrounding.

(a)

Any poles, wires, cable lines, conduits or other properties of a licensee under the provisions of this chapter to be installed in streets shall be installed only at such locations and in such manner as shall be approved by the director of public works and shall conform to all applicable laws.

(b)

The licensee shall not install or erect any facilities or apparatus in or on other public property, places or rights of way, or within any privately owned area within the county which has not yet become a public street but is designated or delineated as a proposed public street on any tentative subdivision map approved by the county except those installed or erected upon existing or future public utility facilities, without obtaining the prior written approval of the director of public works and the owner of the property involved.

(c)

In those areas and portions of the county where the transmission or distribution facilities of the public utility providing telephone service and those of the utility providing electric service are underground or are subsequently placed underground, then the licensee, immediately upon written instruction by the director of public works, shall construct or reconstruct, operate, relocate and maintain all of its transmission and distribution facilities underground. For the purposes of this subsection "underground" shall include a partial underground system, e.g., streamlining. Amplifiers in licensee's transmission and distribution lines may be in appropriate housings upon the surface of the ground as approved by the director of public works. The county shall not, in any manner, be responsible for costs incurred by a licensee in placing its facilities underground pursuant to this section.

(Ord. No. 1068 § 18.)