[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of Prospect Park 5-6-1898 as Ord. No. 87, approved 5-10-1898. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Electrical standards — See Ch. 75.
It shall be the duty of the Police Committee to cause a thorough inspection to be made at least once in every year of all telegraph, telephone, electric light and trolley poles erected within the Borough limits. If any pole shall be found defective or dangerous from any cause, the Police Committee shall notify the owner of such pole, who shall forthwith replace the same with a sound pole, and if the said owner neglect or refuse to replace such defective pole within 48 hours after receiving such notification, he or they shall be liable to the penalties provided for in this chapter.
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Editor's Note: Amended 4-4-1977 by Ord. No. 948, approved 4-4-1977.
All telegraph, telephone, electric light and trolley poles now erected or hereafter erected in the Borough of Prospect Park shall be designated by the names or initials of the owners of such poles, and each of such poles shall be legibly marked in oil paint with a distinctive number, together with the names or initials of such owners. It shall be the duty of every such owner or owners on or before the first Monday of July 1898 and annually thereafter on the first Monday of January in each year to make application to the Borough Secretary for a license for the ensuing year to maintain the poles theretofore erected, specifying the poles so to be maintained by their designation, as provided for in this section, and the Borough Secretary shall issue a license to such applicant which shall authorize the maintenance of the poles designated in the application only for the period of one year, from the first day of January of the year for which the application is made, and no longer; and the charge for issuing such license shall be the sum of $1 for each and every pole authorized to be maintained thereby and shall be paid to the Borough Secretary for the use of said Borough.
No telegraph, telephone, electric light or trolley pole shall be hereafter erected within the limits of this Borough unless license shall first be taken out as aforesaid, for which the applicant shall pay $1 to the Borough Secretary, unless the license be issued during the months from July to December, inclusive, in which case the applicant shall pay the sum of $0.50. Poles shall be erected at such points and of such character, only, as shall be approved by the Police Committee.
No telegraph, telephone, electric light or trolley pole shall be erected or maintained within the corporate limits of the Borough of Prospect Park without an annual license for the maintenance thereof having been previously granted for the same in accordance with the provisions of §§ 127-2 and 127-3 of this chapter.
In case the Borough of Prospect Park shall desire to use any pole erected or maintained under this chapter for any municipal purpose, it shall have the right to the exclusive use, free of charge, of one arm of one crossbar upon any such poles with the right to string wires therefrom.
Any person who shall violate any provisions of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be punishable by a fine of not more than $300 and costs of such proceedings or, upon default of payment of such fines and costs, by imprisonment in the county jail for a term of not more than 30 days. The continuation of such violation for each successive day shall constitute a separate offense, and the person or persons allowing or permitting the continuation of the violation may be punished as provided above for each separate offense.
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Editor's Note: Amended 4-4-1977 by Ord. No. 948, approved 4-4-1977.