[HISTORY: Adopted City of Norwalk Common Council 5-14-1957; effective 5-25-1957.]
The Council shall have and exercise general supervision[1] over the public lighting of streets, highways, sidewalks
and public grounds within the limits of the Fourth Taxing District
of the city, and no lamp shall be added to or discontinued from the
present lighting system within the First District, the Second District
or the Third District respectively, except on recommendation of the
Council.
The schedule of public-lighting hours and the kind, size and
capacity of lamps to be used for supplying such public lighting in
the First, Second and Third Districts shall be decided, arranged or
contracted for, as may be required, by the District Commissioners
of such several districts, subject to the approval of the Council.
The cost of public lighting shall be met by taxes levied upon
the inhabitants and property within the limits of the Fourth Taxing
District in the following manner:
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The inhabitants and property within the limits of the First Taxing
District shall be taxed for and such First Taxing District shall pay
the cost of the public lighting within such First District; the inhabitants
and property within the limits of the Second Taxing District shall
be taxed for and such Second Taxing District shall pay the cost of
the public lighting within such Second District; and the inhabitants
within the limits, of the Third Taxing District shall be taxed for
and such Third Taxing District shall pay the cost of the public lighting
within such Third District.
In the event that the First Taxing District, Second Taxing District
or Third Taxing District shall, at any time, neglect or fail to light
the streets, highways, sidewalks and public grounds within the limits
of such respective districts, the Council shall arrange and contract
for the lighting thereof, and the expense of such lighting shall be
borne by the district within which the Council shall furnish such
public lighting, and shall be paid by taxes levied for such purpose
on the inhabitants and property within the limits of such district.
All petitions and communications to the Council relative to
public lighting, within the limits of the Fourth Taxing District,
shall be referred by the Council to the Committee on Lights for investigation,
and such Committee on Lights shall make such investigation in connection
therewith as it may deem necessary and shall report the result of
such investigation to the Council, together with such recommendations
as it may deem appropriate. The Council shall take immediate action
on such recommendations, and the City Clerk shall forthwith communicate
the action of the Council to the District Commissioner of the district
affected or concerned by such petition or communication, investigation
and recommendations.
Any person who shall willfully or maliciously cut, break, injure,
or destroy any electric light, gas light, lamp, lantern, electric
light wires, cables, conduits[1] or insulators, post or frame, in the city, or light any
public lamp or extinguish the same, without proper authority, or in
any way interfere or meddle with the proper use or management of the
public lights within the city, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
