16.10.200 Interpretation and severability.

A.    The City recognizes that, pending further judicial interpretation or legislative amendment, Public Utilities Code Sections 7901 and 7901.1 currently limit the City’s power to control use of the public rights-of-way by telephone companies as that term is used therein, and Cable Operators subject to the Digital Infrastructure and Video Competition Act of 2006 (Public Utilities Code Sections 5800 et seq.), to reasonable time, place and manner regulations. Accordingly, this Chapter shall be interpreted and applied in a manner consistent with Public Utilities Code Sections 7901 and 7901.1.

B.    If any word, phrase, sentence, part, section, subsection, or other portion of this chapter, or any application thereof to any person or circumstance, is declared void, unconstitutional, or invalid for any reason, then such word, phrase, sentence, part, section, subsection, or other portion, or the proscribed application thereof, shall be severable, and the remaining provisions of this chapter, and all applications thereof not having been declared void, unconstitutional or invalid, shall remain in full force and effect. (Ord. 7083-NS § 4 (part), 2009)