Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 761 - Transportation Department › Right-of-way and Environment › Chapter 115 - Utility Accommodation › Rule 761-115.2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 3, July 24, 2024
"Adjustment"
means a physical change to an
				  existing utility facility including improvement, rearrangement, reinstallation,
				  protection, relocation or removal of the utility facility.
"Agreement"
means a contract between the
				  department and a utility owner.
"Appurtenance "
means a utility
				  facility-related feature such as a vent, drain, utility access or
				  marker.
"Backfill"
means placement of suitable
				  material and compaction of the material as specified in these rules.
"Breakaway "
means designed to shatter, bend
				  easily or separate from a solid foundation.
"Cable"
means an insulated conductor or a
				  combination of insulated conductors.
"Carrier "
means a pipe directly enclosing a
				  transmitted fluid (liquid or gas) or slurry. "Carrier" also means an electric
				  or communication cable, wire or line.
"Casing "
means an oversize load-bearing
				  pipe, conduit, duct, or structure through which a carrier or cable is
				  inserted.
"Cell"
means a conduit.
"Clear zone "
means that roadside border
				  area, starting at the edge of the traveled way, available for use by errant
				  vehicles.
"Communication line "
or
"communication cable "
means a circuit for telephone,
				  telegraph, alarm system, television transmission or traffic control
				  purposes.
"Conduit"
means an enclosed tubular runway
				  for protecting wires or cables. A conduit may also be referred to as a "cell"
				  or "duct."
"Cover"
means depth from the grade of a
				  roadway or ditch to the top of an underground utility facility.
"District representative"
means a department
				  employee who processes utility accommodation requests in an assigned
				  geographical area.
"Duct"
means a conduit.
"Emergency "
means an unplanned situation
				  that presents a danger to the life, safety or welfare of motorists, persons
				  working within the right-of-way or the general public and that requires
				  immediate attention. The emergency may be the result of storm damage and may
				  involve disruption of utility service to customers. Work on a utility facility
				  due to an emergency is unplanned work and may be necessary at any time of the
				  day or night. The emergency work operation usually involves a small crew and a
				  work vehicle for a short period of time.
"Encasement"
means placing a casing around a
				  utility facility.
"FHWA "
means the Federal Highway
				  Administration.
"Foreslope"
means the sloping surface of an
				  embankment, ditch, or borrow pit of which the downward inclination is away from
				  the traveled way.
"Freeway"
means a fully controlled access
				  primary highway. The rights of ingress and egress from abutting properties have
				  been legally eliminated by the department. Permanent access to the highway is
				  allowed only at interchange locations. A freeway is generally five or more
				  miles in length.
"Highly energized"
means an electrical
				  energy level that could be hazardous if the utility facility is struck or
				  exposed. For purposes of this chapter, voltage exceeding 60 volts is considered
				  to be highly energized.
"Highway," "street"
or
"road"
means a public way for the purpose of vehicular
				  travel, including the entire area between the right-of-way lines.
"Interchange"
means a system that provides
				  for the movement of traffic between intersecting roadways via one or more grade
				  separations.
"Maintenance"
as the term is used in
				  conjunction with a utility facility means any repair or replacement of the
				  utility facility that is not an adjustment and that does not increase the
				  capacity of the original installation. The term "maintenance" when used in
				  conjunction with a highway means repair or other operational activities
				  performed by the department within the highway right-of-way to preserve the
				  function of the highway and its structures.
"Median "
means that portion of a divided
				  highway separating traffic moving in opposite directions.
"Multiduct"
means a system comprised of two
				  or more conduits.
"MUTCD"
means the Manual on Uniform Traffic
				  Control Devices, as adopted in 761-Chapter 130.
"Nonfreewayprimary highway"
means a primary
				  highway that is not a freeway.
"Occupy the primary highway right-of-way"
means located or to be located in, on, above or below the primary highway
				  right-of-way. The term includes attachments to primary highway
				  structures.
"Pavement"
means that portion of a roadway
				  used for the movement of vehicles, excluding shoulders.
"Permit"
means a utility accommodation
				  permit issued by the department. The term "permit" includes any attachments to
				  the permit.
"Pipe"
means a tubular product used to
				  transport solids, liquids or gases.
"Pipeline"
means a carrier system used to
				  transport liquids, gases, or slurries.
"Plowing"
means the installation of a
				  utility line in the ground by means of a plow-type mechanism that breaks the
				  ground, places the utility line and closes the break in the ground in a single
				  operation.
"Primary highway"
means a road or street
				  designated as a "primary road" in accordance with Iowa Code subsection
				  306.3(6).
				  This definition includes primary highway extensions in cities and primary
				  highways under construction.
"Right-of-way"
means the land for a public
				  highway, street or road, including the entire area between the property lines.
				  For purposes of this chapter, the right-of-way line for a freeway is the access
				  control line.
"Roadway"
means that portion of a highway
				  used for the movement of vehicles, including shoulders and auxiliary lanes. A
				  divided highway has two or more roadways.
"Rural-type roadway"
means a roadway that
				  does not have as its outside extremities a curb and gutter section.
"Service connection"
means a water, gas,
				  power, communication, sanitary sewer or storm sewer line that extends from the
				  main or primary utility facility into an adjacent property and that is used to
				  serve the property.
"Shoulder"
means that portion of a roadway
				  contiguous to the traveled way for the accommodation of disabled vehicles, for
				  emergency use and for the lateral support of the pavement base and surface
				  courses.
"Toe offoreslope"
means the intersection of
				  the foreslope and the natural ground or ditch bottom.
"Traveled way"
means that portion of a
				  roadway used for the movement of vehicles, excluding shoulders and auxiliary
				  lanes.
"Trenched"
means installed in a narrow open
				  excavation.
"Trenchless"
means installed without
				  breaking the ground or the pavement surface, such as by jacking, boring,
				  tunneling or mechanical compaction.
"Urban-type roadway"
means a roadway that
				  has as its outside extremities a curb and gutter section.
"Utility"
means a system for supplying
				  water, gas, power, or communications; a storm sewer, sanitary sewer, drainage
				  tile or other system for transmitting liquids; a pipeline system; or like
				  service systems. The term "utility" includes traffic signal systems and street
				  and intersection lighting systems.
"Utility access"
means an opening in an
				  underground utility system through which workers or others may enter for the
				  purpose of making installations, inspections, removals, repairs, connections or
				  tests.
"Utility facility"
means any pole, pipe,
				  pipeline, pipeline company facility, sewer line, drainage tile, conduit, cable,
				  aqueduct or other utility-related structure or appurtenance. However, the term
				  does not include department facilities or the utility lines that service
				  them.
"Utility owner"
means the owner of a utility
				  facility.
"Vent"
means an appurtenance used to
				  ventilate or to discharge gaseous contaminants from casings.