San Jose Municipal Code Part 6 Undergrounding and Relocation

A. State video franchise holders shall comply with the provisions of Chapter 15.20 and Chapter 15.24 related to the undergrounding of poles and overhead wires and the creation of underground utility districts.

B. In those areas or portions of the city where the transmission or distribution facilities of state video franchise holders are underground, or are hereafter required to be placed underground by the city, state video franchise holders shall likewise construct, operate and maintain all transmission and distribution facilities underground. Amplifiers and couplings on the transmission and distribution lines may be constructed and maintained above-ground, if approved by the director, in appropriate metal or concrete boxes or vaults as prescribed by the director.

(Ord. 28530.)

A. State video franchise holders shall, at their own expense, protect, support, temporarily disconnect, relocate in the same street, alley or public property or place, or remove from any street, alley or public property or place, any of its property when required by the director by reason of traffic conditions, public safety, street vacation, freeway or street construction, street widening, change or establishment of street grade, installation of sewers, drains, water pipes, power lines, signal lines and tracks, or any other type of structures or improvements by the city or other governmental agencies when acting in a governmental or proprietary capacity, or any other structures or public improvements.

B. Upon failure of a state video franchise holder to commence, pursue or complete any work required by law or by the provisions of this chapter or by any franchise or franchise renewal to be done in any street, public place or public property within the time prescribed and to the satisfaction of the director, the director may, at his or her option, cause such work to be done, and the state video franchise holder shall pay to the city the costs thereof within thirty days after receipt of an itemized report of such costs from the director.

(Ord. 28530.)

If at any time the city elects to alter, change the grade of or construct any street, alley or other public way, or any public property, the state video franchise holder, upon reasonable notice by the city, shall remove and relocate its structures, lines and equipment, at its own expense, to the extent the city deems such to be reasonably necessary for the above purpose.

(Ord. 28530.)