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(C) Grant of right; payment of user fee. (1) Any person required to register under this section, which furnishes utility services or which occupies, uses, or places its equipment in the right-of-way, is hereby granted a right to do so if and only so long as it pays the user fees as provided herein in a timely manner and complies with all other requirements of law. This legal entitlement shall not include use of the right-of-way for purposes not in furtherance of furnishing utility services for which additional authorization is required by this chapter or other state or federal law, unless the person pays the user fee for the non-utility service use. (2) The fee shall be paid to the city in substantially equal quarterly installments, subject to adjustment and correction at the conclusion of the calendar year. This fee shall be paid for all and any part of a calendar year, prorated on a daily basis, during any time period in which the permit holder uses or occupies the right-of-way to furnish utility service, or places, maintains or uses its wires, mains, pipes, or any other facilities or equipment in the right-of-way. (3) The granting of the right is expressly conditioned on, and is subject to, continuing compliance with all provisions of law, including this section. (D) Franchise agreements; franchise payments. This section does not apply to a person or business which uses and occupies the right-of-way for operating its business when there is a preexisting franchise agreement between that person or business and the city and franchise payments are made as agreed. (1993 Code, § 1165.07) § 96.10 REPORTING OBLIGATIONS. (A) Operations. (1) Each registrant shall at the time of registration and by December 1 of each year, file a construction and major maintenance plan with the city. Registrants must use commercially reasonable efforts to anticipate and plan for all upcoming projects and include all the projects in a construction or major maintenance plan. The plan shall be submitted using a format designated by the city and shall contain the information determined by the city to be necessary to facilitate the coordination and reduction in the frequency of excavations and obstructions of rights-of-way. (2) The plan shall include, but not be limited to, the following information: (a) The specific locations and the estimated beginning and ending dates of all projects to be commenced during the next calendar year (in this chapter, a “next-year project’); and (b) The tentative locations and beginning and ending dates for all projects contemplated for the 5 years following the next calendar year (in this chapter, a “5-year project”). (3) The term “project” in this section shall include both next-year projects and 5-year projects. (4) By January 1 of each year, the city will have available for inspection in its offices a composite list of all projects of which it has been informed in the annual plans. All registrants are responsible for keeping themselves apprised of the current status of this list. (5) Thereafter, by February 1, each registrant may change any project in its list of next-year 71