A. Where required by the city council, easements shall be provided for utilities, drainage and vehicular or pedestrian access.

B. Utility easements shall be located along side and rear lot lines wherever necessary and, if placed in the street, be located between the roadway and the right-of-way line, or as requested by the utility company involved.

C. Utility easements shall be fifteen feet wide unless otherwise specified by a utility company or the city council.

D. Where a utility is to be located in an existing, dedicated right-of-way, a notice of utility occupancy must be obtained from the governing body having jurisdiction of the right-of-way.

E. Where a subdivision is traversed by a watercourse drainage way, channel, ditch or stream, easements or rights-of-way may be required to parallel the lines of such watercourse at a sufficient width to allow for maintenance. A minimum easement width of ten feet is required on each side of irrigation canals or streams for maintenance purposes. Such width shall be measured from the mean high elevation of the stream for the last five years.

F. In addition to showing the location of the utility easement on the plat with dashed lines, the following statement shall appear on the final plat:

The undersigned hereby grants unto each and every person, firm or corporation, whether public or private, providing or offering to provide telephone, telegraph, electric power, gas, cable television, water or sewer service to the public, the right to the joint use of an easement for the construction, maintenance, repair and removal of their lines and other facilities, in, over, under, and across each area designated on this plat as "Utility Easement" to have and to hold forever.

(Ord. 588 § 1(part), 1996)