§ 9. [Use of public right-of-way.]

This ordinance authorizes use of publicly owned right-of-way only for the purpose of transmitting, furnishing and distributing electricity. To that end, the company or its contractors can construct, reconstruct, excavate for, place, maintain, operate and use communication equipment, devices, and components, only which aid the company in transmitting, furnishing and distributing electricity along their associated wires, cables (including fiber optics), conduits, structures and supporting facilities in, along, across, over, and under the public right-of-way, and only after they have informed the city of their plans to install and use such communications equipment for their own internal uses. The company shall also inform the city when any other entity requests to use its facilities in the public right-of-way of the city, and shall not allow or permit such use unless the other entity provides the company with evidence of a valid franchise agreement with the city.