No telegraph, telephone, electric light or railway
company, or other corporation, association or person, shall erect
any post or pole to support wires or lines for the transmission of
electricity in any public way or grounds without and until the legal
consent, in writing, duly acknowledged, of at least one-half (1/2)
of the owners of abutting property shall have first been obtained
and filed with the City Clerk, nor without the consent of the Common
Council previously obtained, in which the exact location of each post
or pole proposed to be erected shall be duly set forth, and no wire
or line for the transmission of electricity for any purpose shall
be attached to any tree, building, erection or fixture of any kind,
in any public away or grounds, by cross arms or other means, except
by permission of the Department of Public Works previously obtained,
in which permission such tree, building, erection of fixture shall
be duly described.
No corporation or person shall attach any wire
or wires for the transmission of electricity for any purpose, except
the lines and wires of the City of Oswego, to any post or pole already
erected for the use of another corporation or person, except by the
consent of the owner and the Common Council previously obtained. A
hearing upon all petitions to the Common Council for permission to
erect posts or poles to support wires or lines or to attach wires
or lines to trees or other fixtures for the transmission of electricity
for any purpose shall be given to all parties interested before the
proper committee of the Common Council, who shall recommend to such
Council such action as may be deemed expedient. Notice of the filing
of such petition and of the hearing thereon shall be given by the
petitioner or petitioners by publication for at least three (3) days
in the official papers to all persons owning or occupying the land
along the streets or ways upon which locations are paid for, which
notice shall state briefly the streets or ways or the parts thereof
to which such petition relates.
None but sound, straight, well-formed posts
or poles, smooth and free from decay, of quality satisfactory to the
Superintendent of Public Works, shall be erected and maintained in
any public way, bridge or grounds, under the permission to erect posts
or poles to support wires for telegraph or telephone or other lines
for the transmission of electricity. No telegraph, telephone or other
company, person or corporation, their servants or agents shall cut
or in any way deface or mar or injure any tree or the limbs thereof
in erecting or maintaining in any of the streets or public places
in this city any of their poles, wires or other structures without
the consent of the Department of Public Works and of the owner of
the premises in front of which any such tree or trees are standing,
and then only under the immediate supervision of the Superintendent
of Public Works or any persons designated by him.
All posts or poles erected and maintained in
the public ways for the support of wires, for telegraph or telephone
service and other lines for the transmission of electricity shall
be set and maintained in a perpendicular position, as nearly as practicable,
of uniform height as nearly as practicable, and in line with each
other; and shall be shaved and kept properly painted by the owners
thereof in such colors and manner as the Department of Public Works
may direct from time to time, and with the words "Post No Bills" painted
thereon under the direction and approval of the Superintendent of
Public Works. All posts and poles used for carrying of wires for telegraph
or telephone service and other lines for the transmission of electricity
or in connection therewith which are not erected, kept and maintained
in conformity with the preceding ordinances may be summarily removed
by the Superintendent of Public Works after two (2) days' notice to
the owner or his agent or employee to remove the same.
No wire for telegraph or telephone service or
other line for the transmission of electricity shall be attached to
any post or pole, tree or other fixture at a point less than twenty
(20) feet above the level of the street or ground nor run along or
across any public street or way, except by the permission of the Common
Council; and, except by such permission, no post or pole more than
forty (40) feet high shall be erected for the support of such wires
or lines.
Every corporation or person maintaining or operating
a wire or line of wire for telegraph or telephone service or other
line for the transmission of electricity shall mark such post or pole,
structure or fixture in a clear and legible manner and keep the same
so marked with the name of the corporation or persons maintaining
or operating such line or wire; and when any line or wire shall be
affixed to the post or pole or fixture of another corporation or person,
it shall be attached to a suitable arm or bracket.
Any person violating the provisions of this
chapter shall be subject to a fine of not less than five dollars ($5.)
nor more than fifty dollars ($50.).