City of Haverhill, MA
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2024-01-09
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The Code
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 141 Electrical Standards
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Article III Wires in Common Locations
- The Charter
- Ch C Charter
- The Code
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 3 Administration of Government
- Ch 6 Authorities
- Ch 11 Boards and Commissions
- Ch 18 Claims Approval
- Ch 21 Committees
- Ch 25 Councils
- Ch 32 Departments
- Ch 34 Emergency Management
- Ch 36 Fees and Receipts
- Ch 39 Flag, City
- Ch 43 Fundraising
- Ch 54 Historic Districts
- Ch 60 Libraries
- Ch 66 Meetings
- Ch 70 Officers and Employees
- Ch 72 Ordinances, Adoption of
- Ch 75 Pensions and Other Benefits
- Ch 77 Personnel Policies and Regulations
- Ch 80 Purchasing and Contracts
- Ch 83 Revolving Funds
- Ch 85 Schools
- Ch 87 Seal, City
- Ch 94 Veterans' Services
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 97 Alarm Systems
- Ch 100 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 101 Ambulance Service; Chair Car Service
- Ch 104 Amusements
- Ch 108 Auctions and Auctioneers
- Ch 110 Auditorium
- Ch 113 Bicycles
- Ch 116 Boats and Boating
- Ch 120 Building Construction
- Ch 122 Building Maintenance
- Ch 123 Buildings, Moving of
- Ch 125 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 128 Charges and Fees, Miscellaneous
- Ch 130 Citizens' Center
- Ch 131 Composting Program, Municipal
- Ch 132 (Reserved)
- Ch 137 Dogs and Other Animals
- Ch 141 Electrical Standards
- Ch 141 Art III Wires in Common Locations
- § 141-15 Kinds to be used; prompt removal upon disuse; insulation required.
- § 141-16 Placement of wires to avoid hindrance of Fire Department.
- § 141-17 Signal wires not to be on same pole as high voltage lines; exceptions.
- Ch 143 Employment by City
- Ch 145 Explosives and Firearms
- Ch 150 Fire Prevention
- Ch 156 Fortune-Telling
- Ch 160 Graffiti
- Ch 163 Hazardous Waste Facilities
- Ch 167 Junk Dealers
- Ch 171 Licensing
- Ch 173 Littering
- Ch 175 Loitering
- Ch 182 Noise
- Ch 185 Parades and Processions
- Ch 187 Pawnbrokers; Secondhand Articles; Old Gold
- Ch 189 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 191 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 193 Playgrounds, Parks and Recreation Areas
- Ch 196 Property, City
- Ch 200 Rental Permits
- Ch 202 Renting to Minors
- Ch 204 Sales, Special
- Ch 206 Senior Citizen Tax Incentive Program
- Ch 208 Sewers and Drains
- Ch 213 Signs
- Ch 216 Snow and Ice Removal
- Ch 219 Stormwater Management
- Ch 222 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 225 Swimming Pools
- Ch 227 Tag Days
- Ch 230 Taxicabs and Buses
- Ch 235 Trick or Treat
- Ch 240 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 241 Vehicles, Motor-Driven
- Ch 242 Vehicles, Storage and Impoundment of
- Ch 244 Vehicles, Unregistered or Abandoned
- Ch 248 Wastewater Lift Station
- Ch 249 Wastewater Treatment
- Ch 250 Water
- Ch 253 Wetlands
- Ch 255 Zoning
- Appendix
- Ch A258 Acceptance of General Laws
- Ch A259 Special Acts
- Derivation Table
- Ch DT Derivation Table
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
Every person owning, leasing or operating a line of wires over streets,
ways or buildings in the City shall use only wires that are suitable and strong,
shall suitably and safely attach them to strong and sufficient supports, and
insulate them at all points of attachment, shall remove promptly all wires
the use of which has been permanently discontinued, shall not permit an unused
piece of electric wire to be left on the surface of any street or sidewalk,
nor an unused coil or loose end of an electric wire to remain attached to
a post, pole or crossarm for more than 24 hours, shall suitably and safely
insulate every wire where it enters a building and, if such wire is other
than a wire designed to carry an electric light or power current, shall attach
to it at suitable and convenient places along the circuit, and especially
near the place of its entry into the building, an appliance calculated to
prevent, beyond the point at which such appliance is attached, the continuance
of, and to prevent at all times from entering the building, a current of electricity
of such intensity or volume as to be capable of injuring electrical instruments
or causing fire within the building.
No wire shall be installed or operated over or across any street, way,
building or structure in the City which may at any time seriously interfere
with or obstruct the work or convenience of the Fire Department in the use
of ladders or of other fire apparatus, or which may at any time obstruct or
render hazardous the use of fire escapes. On complaint of the Chief of the
Fire Department, the Inspector of Wires shall see that all such interfering,
obstructing or hazardous wires are removed or safely and properly rearranged.
Except where impossible or inexpedient, signal wires shall not be carried
on the same pole or supports with or in other dangerous proximity to high
potential electric light or power wires, and where a joint occupancy pole
or support carrying wires of these two classes is necessary, or where routes
traversed by wires of these two classes cross each other, high potential electric
light or power wires shall be placed and maintained not less than four feet
apart from any such signal wires, and where it is impossible to provide for
such separation, it shall be the duty of the Inspector of Wires to arrange
and enforce a safe and equitable alternative plan.
