Chino Municipal Code Ch. 13.27 Underground Cable Television

For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:

A. "Cable operator" or "C.A.T.V. operator" means any person having a franchise to provide plant and equipment for the purpose of distributing video programming to home subscribers in a particular area of the city.

B. "Cable television facility" or "C.A.T.V. facility" means a system of underground conduit, pullboxes, and appurtenances installed in accordance with the requirements, standards, and specifications of the city to provide for the connection or future connection of C.A.T.V. cables and other conductors and equipment to existing or future residential dwelling units in a subdivision.

C. "Developer" means any person who proposes to divide, divides, or causes to be divided real property into a subdivision for himself or for others.

D. "Person" means an individual, partnership, association, organization, corporation, or any lawful successor, transferee, or assignee of the individual, partnership, association, organization, or corporation.

E. "Subdivision" means the division of any land shown on the latest equalized county assessment roll as a unit or as contiguous units for the purpose of sale, lease, or financing, whether immediate or future. Subdivision shall further be defined to mean that division of land for residential building purposes that has, as a condition of approval per the subdivision ordinance of the city, a requirement for the construction of full public improvements including underground utilities on any perimeter and/or interior street, private or public.

(Ord. 83-20 § 2 (part), 1983.)

Any developer constructing, or causing to be constructed, public improvements in a subdivision shall provide trenches in the public or private street and to individual building sites for the C.A.T.V. facility at the same time as trenches for electric and telephone facilities are provided. The developer shall give the cable operator reasonable notice of the particular date or dates on which open trenching will be available. Further, if the subdivision is in an area of the city outside of a C.A.T.V. operator supply area, or if no C.A.T.V. operator currently holds a franchise in the city, the developer shall install, or cause to be installed, the C.A.T.V. facility in the trenches in accordance with the requirements, standards, and specifications of the city.

(Ord. 83-20 § 2 (part), 1983.)

The C.A.T.V. facility shall be installed along all street frontage adjoining the lot upon which the residential development is to be constructed, unless the C.A.T.V. facility already exists along the frontage. The C.A.T.V. facility shall be installed in such a way as to provide service conduit to each individual dwelling unit or future dwelling unit in the subdivision. Service connections shall be made laterally from the street frontage and in such a manner as to minimize the number of junction boxes along the frontage. Service laterals shall not be installed under asphalt concrete pavement or Portland cement concrete driveway approaches. The C.A.T.V. facility shall be of the size and at the locations as specified by the city in accordance with the requirements, standards, and specifications of the city.

(Ord. 83-20 § 2 (part), 1983.)

Prior to approval of the final map, parcel map, or certificate of compliance for the subdivision, the city's designated cable operator shall inspect the construction of cable facilities in new development, provide the developer with a notice of improvements required to comply with the provisions of this chapter, and submit to the developer a letter of compliance which shall be transmitted to the city engineer for approval. The developer shall notify the cable operator of the time the trenches are expected to be open for the C.A.T.V. facility to be installed, and the cable operator shall provide specifications to the developer as needed for trenching. In the event that no cable operator holds a franchise covering the subdivision, the developer shall provide engineering plans to the city engineer indicating the proposed method of installation.

Nothing in this section shall exempt the cable operator from complying with the permit and inspection procedures for work in the public right-of-way.

(Ord. 88-1 § 1, 1988: Ord. 83-20 § 2 (part), 1983.)

The building inspector shall not issue final approval for use of any dwelling unit in the subdivision until such building inspector has received from the city engineer a notice of compliance indicating that the provisions of this chapter have been complied with.

(Ord. 83-20 § 2 (part), 1983.)

When C.A.T.V. facilities have been installed by a developer, the city may, but shall not be required to, enter into an agreement for repayment to the developer of the actual construction cost of the C.A.T.V. facility, exclusive of trenching. Repayment shall be made only from funds received from charges collected by the city from a cable operator proposing to provide service to that area. The term of the repayment agreement shall not exceed five years from acceptance of such C.A.T.V. facility.

(Ord. 83-20 § 2 (part), 1983.)