§ 110-262. Findings; adoption of rules and regulations.

(a)

The city commission finds and determines that the public interest requires that all new utility facilities to be constructed within all new additions or subdivisions to the city shall, to the extent practicable and feasible, be placed underground within dedicated utility easements in order to promote and preserve the health, peace and safety and general welfare of the public and to ensure the orderly development of all such new additions and subdivisions to the city.

(b)

The city commission may, by resolution or amendment, adopt and prescribe rules and regulations governing the installation in dedicated utility easements of all utility facilities, not inconsistent with any franchise or grant, contractual or statutory, of this city or the laws of the state, and may under the authority of this division delegate authority to the various administrative officers of the city to enforce such rules and regulations.

(Code 1988, § 19-176)