§ 28-89. Exemption of essential services.

The erection, construction, alteration or maintenance by public utilities or municipal departments or commissions, of overhead or underground gas, electrical, steam, or water distribution or transmission systems, collection, communication, supply or disposal systems, including mains, drains, sewers, pipes, conduits, wires, cables, fire alarm boxes, police callboxes, traffic signals, hydrants, towers, poles, electrical substations, gas regulator stations, telephone exchange buildings, public utility or municipal buildings and other similar equipment and accessories in connection therewith, reasonably necessary for the furnishing of adequate service by such public utility or municipal department or commission shall be permitted as authorized or regulated by law and other ordinances of the city in any use district, it being the intention hereof to except such erection, construction, alteration, and maintenance from the application of this chapter.

(Code 1977, § 5.190; Ord. No. 2012.16, § 4, 7-17-12)

Editor's note

Ord. No. 2012.16, § 4, adopted July 17, 2012, renumbered the former § 28-134 as § 28-89.