Athens City Code

In order to provide for the public health, safety and welfare of the citizens of the city, as well as to ensure the structural integrity of the city's streets and related infrastructures, to minimize the disruption to the traveling public, and to ensure the costs incurred by the city to maintain and manage the rights-of-way and that they are properly allocated among the various users of the rights-of-way, the city establishes standards for authorizing and managing the placement of facilities in rights-of-way; performing installation, maintenance, and other work in the rights-of-way; and appropriately recovering costs incurred by the city related to such activities.

(Code 1972, § 12-101; Code 1995, § 16-201; Ord. No. 906, 2-18-2003)