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STATE OF MINNESOTA COUNTY OF ANOKA CITY OF CENTERVILLE ORDINANCE #74 An Ordinance regulating the use of the City's Right-Of-Ways and the administration and enforcement of such regulations. The City Council of the City ofCenterville ordains as follows: Sec. 1.01. Election to Manager the Public Right-of-Way. To provide for the health, safety and welfare of its citizens, and to ensure the integrity of its streets and the appropriate use of the rights-of-way, the city strives to keep its rights-of-way in a state of good repair and fee from unnecessary encumbrances. Pursuant to the authority granted to the city under state and federal statutory, administrative and common law, the city hereby elects pursuant Minn. Stat. 237.163 Subd. 2(b), to manage right-of- way within its jurisdictions. Sec. 1.02. Definitions. The following definitions apply in this chapter of this code. References hereafter to "sections" are unless otherwise specified references to sections in this chapter. Defined terms remain defined terms whether or not capitalized. "Abandoned Facility" means a facility no longer in service of physically disconnected from a portion ofthe operating facility, or from any other facility, that is in use or still carries service. A facility is not abandoned unless declared so by the right-of-way user. "Applicant" means any person requesting permission to excavate or obstruct a right-of-way. "City" means the City ofCenterville, Minnesota. For purposes of section 1.28, city means its elected officials, officers, employees and agents. "Commission" means the State Public Utilities Commission. "Congested Right-of-Way" means a crowded condition in the subsurface of the pubic right-of-way that occurs when the maximum lateral spacing between existing underground facilities does not allow for construction new underground facilities without using hand digging to expose the existing Page 1 ofl2