Coordination of Excavation by Public Utilities
San Diego Municipal Code § 62.1106
in effect§62.1106 Coordination of Excavation by Public Utilities
(a) Public utilities shall coordinate the installation of their facilities with the City to minimize the damage to the public right-of-way.
On April 1 and October 1 of each year, or on the first business day immediately thereafter, each public utility shall prepare and submit to the City a document that shows all planned trenching in the public right-of-way to be done in the next 24 months. The document shall be in a geospatial data format, or other City Engineer approved format. Any public utility that does not anticipate trenching in the next 24 months shall submit a statement that no trenching is anticipated. A public utility shall immediately report any anticipated trenching to the City as soon as it becomes reasonably foreseeable that the trenching will occur. A project will not be issued a Public Right-of-Way Permit until it has been coordinated in the City’s digital coordination system. Public utilities may submit amendments to previously submitted coordination documents at any time.
(b) The City will use the information provided by a public utility to facilitate coordination among excavators to avoid unnecessary excavation of the public right-of-way. To the extent that a public utility claims that any information provided under Municipal Code section 62.1106 is a trade secret, or is proprietary or confidential information, the public utility shall clearly mark every page containing such information as confidential. The public utility must also provide a specific and detailed legal basis establishing why the information is exempt from public disclosure. If the public utility fails to properly mark or identify proprietary, trade secret, or confidential information or provide the specific legal basis for non-disclosure, the City may release such information to the public.
(c) Public utilities shall indemnify, defend, protect and hold harmless the City, including its elected officials, departments, officers, agents and employees, from and against, any and all actions, claims, costs, damages, demands, expenses, fines, injuries, judgments, liabilities, losses, penalties, or suits arising from the City’s non-disclosure of information deemed by a public utility as proprietary, trade secret, or confidential.
(“Placement and Removal of Markouts” added 10-8-2001 by O-18995 N.S.)
(Retitled from “Placement and Removal of Markouts” to “Coordination of Excavation by Public Utilities” and amended 8-8-2023 by O-21701 N.S.; effective 1-1-2024.)
Source: City of San Diego Office of the City Clerk, San Diego Municipal Code and City Charter (docs.sandiego.gov PDFs)URL: https://docs.sandiego.gov/municode/MuniCodeChapter06/Ch06Art02Division11.pdf#page=5Fetched: 10/28/2026