5.54.340 Location of facilities.
Unless otherwise specified in a franchise, all facilities shall be constructed, installed, and located in accordance with the following terms and conditions:
A. Facilities shall be installed within an existing underground duct or conduit whenever excess capacity exists within such utility facility, unless such location is not feasible due to the technology employed in the facility.
B. A grantee with written authorization to install overhead facilities shall install its facilities on pole attachments to existing or replacement utility poles only, and then only if surplus space is available; provided, that small wireless facilities may be installed on new poles as allowed by Chapter 22.62 MMC.
C. Whenever any existing telephone facilities, electric utilities, cable facilities, or telecommunications facilities are located underground within rights-of-way, a grantee with written authorization to occupy the same rights-of-way must also locate its facilities underground to the extent technically feasible; provided, that small wireless facilities may be installed in accordance with Chapter 22.62 MMC.
D. Whenever any new or existing telephone facilities, electric utilities, cable facilities, or telecommunications facilities are relocated underground within rights-of-way, a grantee shall concurrently relocate its facilities underground if technically feasible; provided, that small wireless facilities may be relocated in accordance with Chapter 22.62 MMC.
E. If requested, a grantee shall provide the city with additional duct or conduit and related structures necessary to access the conduit; provided, that:
1. The city enters into a contract with the grantee consistent with RCW 80.36.150. The contract rates to be charged should recover the incremental costs of the grantee. If the city makes the additional duct or conduit and related access structures available to any other entity for the purposes of providing telecommunications or cable television service for hire, sale, or resale to the general public, the rates to be charged, as set forth in the contract with the entity that constructed the conduit or duct, shall recover at least the fully allocated costs of the grantee. The grantee shall state both contract rates in the contract. The city shall inform the grantee of the use, and any change in use, of the requested duct or conduit and related access structures to determine the applicable rate to be paid by the city.
2. Except as otherwise agreed by the grantee and the city, the city shall agree that the requested additional duct or conduit space and related access structures will not be used by the city to provide telecommunications or cable television service for hire, sale, or resale to the general public.
3. The city shall not require that the additional duct or conduit space be connected to the access structures and vaults of the grantee.
4. The value of the additional duct or conduit requested by the city shall not be considered a public works construction contract. (Ord. 009/2022 § 3 (Exh. A))