10.40.010 Definitions.
For the purpose of this Chapter, unless it is plainly evident from the context that a different meaning is intended, certain terms used herein are defined as follows:
(1) “New additions or subdivisions” means only those subdivisions, resubdivisions, or additions to the city for which preliminary plats have not, prior to March 31, 1970, been approved by the Planning Commission. Even though a preliminary plat has been filed prior to March 31, 1970, any part thereof on which a final plat has not been filed within two years of March 31, 1970, shall be considered a new addition or subdivision.
(2) “Utility” means any organization, person, firm, corporation or cooperative, furnishing gas, sewer, water, electric, communication or television signal services.
(3) “Utility easements” mean those parcels, strips, areas, or other portions of land available for the installation, maintenance, repair, and operation of utility facilities.
(4) “Utility facilities” mean all equipment and appurtenances located above or below ground in streets, alleys, utility easements, rights-of-way, properties and ways of the city used or useful in supplying gas, sewer, water, electric, communication, or television signal services.
(a) “Transmission lines” mean aboveground supporting structures, conductors, and equipment operating at more than fifteen thousand volts for the purpose of transmitting electric power from generating plants to switching stations and substations.
(b) “Feeder lines” mean aboveground supporting structures, conductors, and equipment operating from two thousand four hundred to fifteen thousand volts for the purpose of feeding power from substations to load area distribution lines, or to switching stations, or to other substations.
(c) “Distribution lines” means conductors and equipment, above or below ground, operating at less than fifteen thousand volts for the purpose of delivering electricity to customers.
(d) “Substation” means an aboveground structure with transformers, regulators, and switching equipment for the purpose of interconnecting transmission, feeder, and distribution lines.
(e) “Switching station” is similar to a substation, except without transformers, for the purpose of interconnecting more than two lines of the same type and voltage. (Ord. A-844 §1, 1970).