§ 40.1-3. Customer utility services to be placed underground.

Existing aboveground customer utility services supplied by any existing aboveground facilities which are relocated, all new customer utility services, and extensions of existing customer utility services shall, after the effective date of this chapter (September 5, 1985), be installed below the surface of the ground; provided that:

(1)

Equipment such as electric distribution transformers, switchgear, meter pedestals, telephone pedestals, terminals and other similar equipment, which is normally installed aboveground in accordance with accepted utility practices for underground systems may be so installed.

(2)

Meters, service connection and similar equipment normally attached to the outside wall of the premises it serves may continue to be so installed.

(3)

Aboveground customer utility services existing as of the effective date of this chapter may be maintained or repaired as above-ground services as long as they are supplied by aboveground mains.

(4)

Temporary aboveground facilities required for construction purposes will be permitted.

(5)

All such facilities installed underground and repairs, replacement or increase in capacity thereof shall be performed in accordance with accepted standards of utility practice for underground construction.

(6)

Aboveground installation of utilities is permissible for new customer utility service to detached single-family development when service is available from adjacent aboveground facilities.

(7)

An individual scrap metal processing machine (but not including its shelter structure) that requires a business license pursuant to section 23-93(b) of the Code of the City of Newport News may be connected to an existing aboveground power source so long as such installation is located no more than one hundred (100) feet from the existing aboveground power source.

(Ord. No. 3366-85; Ord. No. 3848-89; Ord. No. 3854-89)

(Ord. No. 3366-85; Ord. No. 3848-89; Ord. No. 3854-89)