26.32.020 UNDERGROUNDING REQUIRED—EXCEPTIONS.

All utility distribution facilities (including but not limited to electric, communication and cable television lines) installed in and for the purpose of supplying service to any residential or commercial subdivision shall be placed underground, except as follows:

(1) Equipment appurtenant to underground facilities, such as pedestal mounted terminal boxes and meter cabinets, and concealed ducts. This does not include transformers;

(2) Metal poles supporting only high voltage wires, switches, transformers and street lights.

For the purposes of this chapter, utility distribution facilities for electrical power shall mean facilities carrying nominal voltages of less than thirty-four thousand five hundred volts.