12.15.020 Permit for erection – Exceptions.
After the effective date of the ordinance codified in this code, no new utility poles and wires shall be erected in the city above the surface of the ground unless a permit is first secured from the director of community development, except that the following construction may be installed without such a permit:
A. Temporary service facilities, such as facilities to furnish emergency service during an outage, facilities to provide service to construction sites, or other service of a limited duration, such as to a fair, carnival, outdoor exhibit or other function where the facilities will be installed for a temporary period only;
B. Pad-mounted transformers or pull boxes, service terminals, pedestal-type telephone terminals, telephone splice closures, or similar on-the-ground facilities normally used with and as a part of an underground electric distribution, telephone, data, telegraph or television system, or on-the-ground facilities attached to existing overhead facilities which are used for the purpose of connecting an underground system with the existing facilities;
C. Transmission lines and distribution feeder lines, together with related switch yards, substations and related equipment. Service drops from existing overhead lines to new single-family residential customers, except when underground service is required by the city’s subdivision ordinances. [Code 2006 § 7-10-2].