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Home » All City Services » Permits & Licenses » Street & Sidewalk » Utility Box Painting Permit
The City of New Orleans' Utility Box Painting Program aims to raise awareness of and promote local civic and community events in a high-impact, place-based manner. Local organizations will be allowed to paint and aesthetically improve City-owned utility box cabinets under certain conditions and specifications if first approved in writing by the City as detailed below. Utility box cabinets and other City-owned assets may not be altered without the City's approval.
The City may regulate the content of utility box painting to ensure that they effectuate the purpose of promoting local events, occasions, or community ambassadors that have a direct and substantial civic or community benefit, and impose other time, place, and manner restrictions necessary to protect City property, City benefits, welfare of the citizenry, and public safety. Utility boxes, regardless of whether they are painted, are the property of the City of New Orleans.
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Department of Public Works 1300 Perdido St, Room 6W03 New Orleans, LA 70112 (504) 658-8000 dpw@nola.gov
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