A.
No posts, poles, structure or supports used for supporting
electric or other wire and no wires used or to be used for conducting
electricity shall be placed in, over or under any street, square,
lane or alley in the Village without permission of the Board of Trustees.
Such permission shall not become operative, take effect or have any
validity until the person, to whom it is granted, files with the Village
Clerk-Treasurer a written agreement assenting to the conditions contained
in this article, accepting such permit subject thereto and promising
to abide by and perform all the conditions and provisions of the laws
and regulations of the Village relating thereto and all amendments
hereafter enacted.
B.
Every application to the Board of Trustees for such
permit shall state the intended location of each pole and wires and
the purpose for which such pole and wires are to be used, and if required
by the Board of Trustees shall file a map of proposed construction.
Every person erecting, maintaining or using
poles, structures, supports or wires under this article shall indemnify
and save harmless the Village, its officers, agents and servants from
and against all claims and demands for injuries or alleged injuries
to persons or property occasioned by the existence of such poles,
posts, structures, supports or wires, or by the transmission of electric
current by means thereof; and the Village, the Board of Trustees,
or its officers, agents or servants exercising the rights, powers
and permission herein shall not be held liable by such person on account
thereof or by reason of any injury or damage caused thereby.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Original § 44.43, Fire alarm system,
which immediately followed this section, was deleted 3-22-2010 by
L.L. No. 2-2010.
A.
Material. All poles for telegraph, telephone and electric
lights shall be straight, properly trimmed and painted and shall be
of iron, cedar, chestnut or hard pine as may be directed by the Director
of Public Works.
B.
Height of wires. Wherever any wires shall cross any
street or way, they shall be at a height or not less than 25 feet
above such street or way and cross at right angles unless otherwise
directed by resolution of the Board of Trustees.
All poles now standing or to be hereafter erected
shall be branded or stamped with the initials of the company owning
them at a point not less than five feet or more than seven feet from
the street surface. When a pole is occupied by wires belonging to
more than one company, each group of cross arms or, when necessary,
the support of a single wire of different ownership must be designated
by some characteristic paint, mark or fastening.
A.
Removal and replacements. All broken and dead wires
and all wires, poles and fixtures not actually in use must be removed
from the streets, avenues and highways of the Village. When an old
pole is taken down it must be removed from the street the same day.
New poles must not be brought upon any street more than two days previous
to their erection. Any pole that shall lie on any street more than
two days shall be removed at the expense of the party owning it.
B.
Notification of alterations. Whenever any person maintaining
electric wires in any street shall make any alterations in the arrangement
of such wires or move any poles or shall make any addition to those
already in operation, such person shall forthwith notify the Village
Clerk-Treasurer that such work is being done.
C.
Location of poles. On all streets where curbstones
are set all poles shall be erected between the sidewalk and the curb,
and where there are no curbstones the poles shall be erected so as
not to interfere with the gutters, and the Board of Trustees may by
resolution direct at what place or places poles may be erected. No
poles shall be erected within 10 feet of any hydrant, nor so as to
interfere with any water pipes, driveway or intersection of a street.
On streets where a conduit has been built for conducting electrical
wires, no poles, post or similar obstruction shall be permitted to
be erected or permitted to remain, except where poles, posts or other
similar obstructions are erected for streetlighting purposes. In such
case no pole or post shall be erected without location of the same
being approved by the Director of Public Works.
D.
Duplication of lines prohibited. No two lines of poles
shall be erected or maintained on any street or avenue. On any street
where there is more than one line of poles, one of such lines of poles
shall, upon direction of the Board of Trustees, be removed and all
the wires placed on a single line of poles.
E.
Changing location of poles, wires, etc.
(1)
Every person erecting, maintaining, or using structures,
supports or wires within the public streets of the Village shall change
the location of such poles, structures, supports, etc., when directed
to do so by resolution of the Board of Trustees if the Board shall
determine that such change is necessary on account of any public improvement.
(2)
No person shall attach any electric wires, guy wires,
insulator or other device for the holding of wire to any living tree
in any street or public place without the written permission of the
Board of Trustees.
F.
Locating wires to avoid injury to trees. Every person
running any wire intended for the conveyance of electricity along
or upon any street or public place shall so locate the same and shall,
from time to time, so change the location thereof as may be directed
by the Board of Trustees in order to avoid injury to trees.
In case of fire or other emergency the Director
of Public Works shall have full power and authority to order and cause
any electric wires to be cut and removed and electric current discontinued
until the fire is extinguished or the emergency eliminated.[1]
