The Inspector of Wires shall investigate all petitions and applications
for the location or removal of poles for the support of wires for the transmission
of electricity, and he shall report thereon to the City Council. No location
for poles shall be granted at any meeting of the City Council, at which meeting
the petition or application therefor shall be presented.
All poles for which locations may hereafter be granted shall be of oak,
chestnut or such other material as the City Council shall direct or approve,
shall be straight, properly trimmed and uniformly painted, and, when required
by the City Council, shall be octagonal in cross section.
On streets where curbstones are set, all poles shall be erected inside
the inner line of the curbing, and on all streets where there is no curbing,
all poles shall be erected inside the gutter, so as not to interfere therewith.
No pole shall be placed within 20 feet of any hydrant hereafter, or so as
to interfere with any water pipe or shade tree.
On all posts or poles hereafter located and erected by permission of
the City Council for the support of wires for the transmission of electricity,
a suitable gain shall be reserved for the use of the fire, police and other
telegraph and telephone signal wires belonging to the City and used exclusively
for municipal purposes, subject to the approval of the Inspector of Wires,
and the City shall have the right gratuitously to place thereon a crossarm
for its own use.
When poles have been abandoned by the owners or lessees thereof, such
owners and lessees shall within 15 days after such abandonment remove such
poles unless they shall give a bond at the time of abandonment conditioned
to guarantee the resumption of the use of such poles within 60 days from the
time of abandonment, such bond to be in a sum of not less than $100 and not
more than $1,000, in amount, in form and with surety or sureties to be approved
by the City Council. In case of the refusal or neglect or failure on the part
of such owner or lessee to remove an abandoned pole within 15 days after its
abandonment, or to resume the use of such abandoned pole within the time limit
specified in a bond guaranteeing the resumption of such use, the Inspector
of Wires may cause such removal to be made in behalf of the City. Wires owned,
leased or operated by others than the owners or lessees of such poles must
be removed within five days after written notice served by the Inspector of
Wires on such owners, lessees or operators, unless the owners, lessees or
operators of such wires assume the ownership or lease of such poles, which
may be transferred to them by the original owners or lessees thereof and by
grant of the City Council, notice of such transfer being filed with the Inspector
of Wires.
