§ 13.14.110. Responsibility—Property owner.

Every person identified owning, operating, leasing, occupying or renting a building or structure within a district, through written notification from the city, shall be required to convert to underground in accordance with Section 13.14.100 and with any other applicable ordinances of the city and the rules, regulations and tariffs of each affected utility on file with the commission. There shall be two options available to the owners of property within a district to comply with this requirement. Within 45 days of the date on which the city mails, delivers, or otherwise transmits written notification to the owners within a district, each owner shall notify the city of which option she/he prefers. The two options are as set forth below in subsections A and B.

A.

1.

Every person owning, operating, leasing, occupying or renting a building or structure within a district boundary shall provide written authorization to access the affected property through execution of right of entry authorizing the city's electrical contractor to install the necessary conduits, wiring, conductors, and associated equipment required for the underground conversion.

2.

City shall provide at its expense in accordance with Section 13.14.100 the contractor labor, permit fees, necessary conduits, wiring, conductors and associated equipment required for the conversion of all affected properties identified with existing electrical overhead service within the district boundary for connection to the underground system.

B.

1.

Every person owning, operating, leasing, occupying or renting a building or structure within a district boundary may opt to hire at her/his own expense an electrical contractor to construct and provide that portion of the service connection on her/his property between the facilities referred to in Section 13.14.100 and the termination facility on or within the building or structure being served in accordance with any applicable ordinances of the city and the rules, regulations and tariffs of each affected utility on file with the commission.

2.

The city shall provide, at its expense, the necessary wire for converting each electrical overhead service within the district to underground service.

3.

Upon completion and approval by city of such undergrounding of electrical utilities as is required by this chapter, the city shall pay the property owner of each separately recorded property the lesser of either three thousand dollars ($3,000.00) or the actual cost of the work in accordance with procedures established by the city manager.

(Ord. 6956 §§ 1, 2, 2003; Ord. 6433 § 1, 1991; Ord. 6012 § 1, 1983; Ord. 5411 § 1, 1979; Ord. 4984 § 1, 1970; Ord. 4891 § 1, 1968; Ord. 4872 § 9(a), 1968)

(Ord. No. 7198, § 1, 9-27-2010; Ord. No. 7232, § 7, 6-3-2013)