10.555 Underground Utilities.
All public utility systems and service facilities, including without limitation all electrical and telephone distribution or transmission facilities, and also all cable television distribution or transmission facilities installed in and for the purpose of providing service to the development shall be located in a public utility easement with a junction box for each lot of the development designed to carry the service drops underground to each serviced building or structure. The developer shall pay any necessary cost or make other arrangements with each of the public utility companies involved for the installation of the underground facilities and for the relocation of existing overhead facilities on the property, and in conformance with the respective operating company's rules and regulations then on file with and approved by the public utilities commission.
Excepting from the foregoing are the following:
(1) Transformers, pedestal mounted terminal boxes, meter cabinets and concealed ducts may be situated above ground if they are solely for the purpose of providing service within the development and area used solely in connection with the underground transmission or distribution lines; and
(2) Poles supporting electricity transmission lines, and the electricity transmission lines supported by such poles, may be situated above the surface of the ground if the voltage carried by such lines exceed 12KV and such lines are not connected to any distribution line situated within the development and do not in any way serve any part of the development; and
(3) Poles supporting street lights, and the electrical lines within said poles, may be situated above the surface of the ground.