§ A356-12. Joint use of public utility facilities.

Any franchise granted hereunder shall not relieve the grantee of any obligation involved in obtaining pole or conduit use agreements from the gas, electric and telephone companies or others maintaining poles or conduits in the streets or roads of the Village, whenever the grantee finds it necessary to make use of said poles or conduits. In areas where either telephone or electric utility facilities are above ground at the time of installation, the grantee may install its service above ground, provided that at such time as those facilities are required to be placed underground by the Village or are placed underground, the grantee shall likewise place its services underground without additional cost to the Village or to the residents of the Village. The distribution system shall be placed underground by the grantee in such areas of the Village where both telephone and electric power utilities are underground.