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Enclosure #2 AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING AN UNDERGROUND UTILITY CORRIDOR IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORATION POLICY WHEREAS, in accordance with Section 33.1-12 (3) of the Code of Virginia, 1950, as amended, the Commonwealth Transportation Board is authorized to adopt and promulgate rules and regulations regarding the operation and safety of the state highway system; and WHEREAS, in accordance with Sections 33.1-44 and 33.1-96 of the Code of Virginia, 1950, as amended, and judicial rulings and legal opinions, the Commissioner of the Virginia Department of Transportation shall reimburse utility companies for the non-betterment reloeation of their facilities affected by a transportation project, where the facilities are located on private property, the utility company has a real property interest/right, or by a prior agreement; and WHEREAS, the above policy applies to transportation projects which are created and constructed in accordance with Section 33.1-44 of the Code of Virginia, 1950, as amended, which covers the Urban System of Highways; and WHEREAS, the City of Martinsville wishes to establish an underground utility corridor covering the Routel 74 Liberty Street/Clearview Drive/Stultz Road intersection project, State Project Number 0174-120-t02, and the extension of Liberty Street from the above-noted project to the City's north corporate limits, State Project Number 0174-120-103, such corridor described as follows: along Liberty Street from approximately the intersection with Dillard Street, north through the Liberty Street, Stultz Road, Clearview Drive intersection to the north corporate limits, along Clearview Drive east from Liberty Street to the intersection of Barrows Mill Road, along Stultz Road west from Liberty Street approximately 225 feet, and along other streets which connect with Liberty Street along the above-noted corridor, for a distance approximately equal to the limits of construction for said project. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular session assembled on September 5, 2000, that there is hereby established an underground utility corridor in the City of Martinsville as described above, in accordance with the Virginia Department of Transportation Policy on Placing Utility Facilities Underground, that portion comprising the Underground Utility Corridor being shown in more detail on a sketch made by the Martinsville Department of Public Works dated August 31, 2000, and on file in the Engineering Division of that Department. AND BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED that in accordance with the aforesaid policy, all new utility facilities in the designated underground utility corridor, whether publicly or privately owned, shall be installed underground.