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• ARTICLE II. System Installation, Location and Maintenance. Section 2-1. Overhead and Underground Wiring. A. In the exercise of the rights granted to the Company by Section 1-5 of this ordinance, the Company may keep its existing cables, lines, poles and other facilities in place in their present locations, whether overhead or underground. The Company may likewise continue its contractual arrangements with the electric and telephone utility companies serving the City for the shared use of their poles, conduits and other facilities. B. New or replacement facilities shall be installed underground, wherever practicable, subject to the following: (1) In areas of the City where telephone and electric lines are already underground, the Company shall place its facilities underground at its own expense. (2) In new subdivisions or other newly developed or redeveloped areas where other utilities are being placed underground, the developer or property owner shall give the Company reasonable notice of such construction or development, and of the particular date on which trenching will be available for • the Company's installation of conduit, pedestals or vaults, and laterals to be provided at Company's expense. The Company shall also provide specifications as needed for trenching. The cost of trenching and easements required to bring service to the development shall be borne by the developer or property owner; except that if the Company fails to install its conduit, pedestals, vaults or laterals within five working days of the date the trenches are available, as designated in the notice given by the developer or property owner, then should the trenches be closed after the five day period, the cost of new trenches is to be borne by the Company. Except for the notice of the particular date on which trenching will be available to the Company, any notice provided to the Company by the developer or owner of a preliminary plat request shall satisfy the requirement of reasonable notice if sent to the local general manager or system engineer of the Company prior to approval of the preliminary plat request. (3) When the Company desires to install new or replacement facilities in areas of the city where underground conduit of the Company or other utilities is not available and where such other utilities have lines overhead, it may request the City's Director of Public Works to waive the requirement that such facilities be placed underground. The Company shall furnish with such request a statement under oath of the estimated cost differential between underground and overhead installation, and the physical obstacles, • if any, to underground installation of the facilities in question. If after reviewing such information the Director of Public Works finds underground installation of the proposed facilities -10-