HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD NO 1926 ORDINANCE NO. 1926 NEW SERIES
AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
BAKERSFIELD AMENDING SECTION 12.28. 020 OF
CHAPTER 12.28 OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE REQUIRING
REMOVAL OF OVERHEAD UTILITY FACILITIES AND
COMPLETION OF UNDERGROUND INSTALLATION IN
ACCORDANCE WITH SCHEDULE.
WHEREAS, the City Council has made the following
determinatioms:
1. That at least forty per cent (40%) of the total
work has been completed in accordance with the schedule set forth
in Chapter 12.28 of the Municipal Code.
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2. That it is in the best interests of the~ City of
Bakersfield 'to extend by five years the time within which such
Chapter requires that at least sixty per cent (60%) of the-work
be completed.
3. That it is in the best interests of the City of
Bakersfield 'to extend by five years the time within which such
Chapter requires that at least eighty per cent (80%) of the work
be completed.
4. That it is in the best interests of the City of
Bakersfield 'to extend by five years the time within which such
Chapter requires that one hundred per cent (100%) of the work be
completed.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the
City of Bakersfield as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 12.28.020 of Chapter 12.28 of the Municipal Code
is hereby amended to read as follows:
12.28. 020 Overhead Wires - When Prohibited - Removal.
(a) After three hundred sixty (360) months from January 7, 1959,
the effective date of this Chapter, it shall be unlawful for any
person to maintain, use, continue to use, operate, or continue to
operate or install, any overhead utility lines or wires, poles, or
other similar overhead utility facilities on any public street, way,
alley, or thoroughfare within said Electric Underground District.
(b) In order to provide for the orderly removal of existing
overhead utility lines and appurtenances within the three hundred
sixty (360)'months specified, each utility subject to this Chapter
shall complete the underground installation of its facilities within
the District in accordance with the following schedule:
(1) By June 30, 1963, at least twenty per cent (20%)
of said utility's total overhead facilities.
(2) By June 30, 1968, at least forty per cent (40%)
of said utility's total overhead facilities.
(3) By June 30, 1978, at least sixty per cent (607o)
of said utility's total overhead facilities.
(4) By June 30, 1983, at least eighty per cent (80%)
of said utility's total overhead facilities.
(5) By June 30, 1988, one hundred per cent (1007o)
of said utility's total overhead facilities.
The computation of the percentage of the work completed
and to be completed as set forth in the above schedule shall be
based upon the footage of the overhead facilities in existence
on December .8, 1958.
(c) Within thirty (30) days after each of the dates shown
in the preceding paragraph, each utility subject to this Chapter
shall report t° the City Engineer the work accomplished toward
replacement of' over-head facilities with underground facilities
during the preceding five (5) years, and the percentage relationship
of the total underground installation accomplished to the total
amount required to be completed on or before June 30, 1988.
SECTION 2.
This Ordinance shall become effective thirty (30) days
from and after the date of its passage.
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I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance was
passed and adopted by the Council of the City of Bakersfield at a
regular meeting thereof held on the 12th day of A~il ,
1971, by the following vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEN BLEECKER, HEISEY, REES, RUCKER, STIERN, VE'rrER, WHITTEMORE
NOES: COUNCILMEN:
ABSTAINING COUNCILMEN:
CITY' CLERK and Ex-OfYicio Clerk of the
Council of the City of Bakersfield.
APPROVED th? .:.12th ' o~ / April , 1971
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' I~YOR of}/ X~ ~t~.'of Bakersfield
~PPROVED:
CITY ATTO~MY
Affi av ! of
STATE OF CALIFORNIA, ~ ss.
CoUnty of Kern
MARIAN S. IRVIN, being duly sworn, deposes and says:
That she is the dully appointed, acting and qualified City Clerk of the City of Bakersfield; and
that on..: ................... .AA?..r..2...i.....i...3. ............................................ 19..?..1... she posted on the Bulletin Boaxd
at the City Hall, a full, true and correct copy of an ordinance passed by the Council of said City
at a meeting thereof duly held on ........... ..A.]~.r...i..l......l..2. ................................... 19...7...1., which ordinance
was' numbered .......... .1...9..2...6. .................... New Series, and entitled:
AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE cITy OF
BAKERSFIELD AMENDING SECTION 12.28.020 OF
CHAPTER 12.28 OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE REQUIRING
REMOVAL OF OVERHEAD UTILITY FACILITIES AND
COMPLETION OF UNDERGROUND INSTALLATION IN
ACCORDANCE WITH SCHEDULE.
Subscribed and sworn to before, me this
13~h day ~.. ~,.A~ri'l '-"'"'~19 71
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~J MY COMMI~ION EXPIRES JUNE 9, 1974