For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.

• City Manager.The City Manager or his designate, including the Street Superintendent, city inspectors and others.
• Excavation. Any opening in the surface of a public place made in any manner whatsoever, except an opening into a lawful structure below the surface of a public place, the top of which is flush with the adjoining surface and so constructed as to permit frequent openings without injury or damage to the public place.
• Facility. Pipe, pipeline, tube, main, service trap, vent, vault, manhole, meter, gauge, regulator, valve, conduit, wire, tower, pole, pole line, anchor, cable, junction box, transformer or any other material, structure or object of any kind or character, whether enumerated herein or not, which is or may be lawfully constructed, left, placed or maintained in, upon, along, across, under of over any public place.
• Public Place. Any public street, street right-of-way, place, alley, sidewalk, park, square, plaza or any other public property owned or controlled by the city.
• Substructure. Any pipe, conduit, duct, tunnel, manhole, vault, buried cable or wire or any other structure located below the surface of any public place.
• Vital Structures.Those elements of the fire and safety protection system of the city and those elements of public and private utility systems which are vital to the health and safety of the city.

(Ord. 1942, passed 11-10-97)