[Amended 4-14-1980 by Ord. No. 753]
It shall be the duty of any company maintaining a system of
electric light, heat, or power, telephone, telegraph, and electric
street railway poles and wires within the highways to annually secure
from the Secretary of the Borough a permit for the privilege so to
do. The permits shall be dated June 1 and shall designate what and
the total number of poles and the miles of wire maintained by the
company securing it within the highways of the Borough.
It shall be the duty of any company maintaining any of the aforesaid
systems of poles and wires within the highways of said Borough before the first day
of June 1896 to consecutively number its poles.
[Amended 4-14-1980 by Ord. No. 753]
Hereafter, no pole shall be so erected that it may not be maintained
in the sidewalk immediately inside the curbline and of at least the
following heights:
A. Electric light, heat, power, telephone and telegraph poles: 25 feet
from the surface.
B. Electric street railway poles: 24 1/2 feet from the surface.
[Amended 4-14-1980 by Ord. No. 753]
It shall be the duty of the police and street authorities to
have a constant care and oversight over the system of poles and wires
of any company insofar as the same are in the highway. Should the
poles or wires become dangerous to abutting property owners or persons
using the highways, such fact shall be reported immediately to the
Secretary of the Borough, who is hereby required to notify at once
the company owning said poles and wires of their dangerous condition.
[Amended 4-3-1936 by Ord.
No. 524]
The fee for the inspection and regulation of poles on public
highways in the Borough of East Pittsburgh be set at the rate of $0.25
per pole per year.
[Amended 4-14-1980 by Ord. No. 753]
Any person, firm or corporation who or which shall violate any
provision of this article shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced
to pay a fine of not more than $300, and costs of prosecution, or,
in default of payment of such fine and costs, to undergo imprisonment
for not more than 30 days, provided each violation of any provision
of this article, and each day the same is continued, shall be deemed
a separate offense.