(Rev. Ords. 1976, Pt. 2, Ch. 12, § 5; Ord. of 11-27-95(1); A0173-12)
Any petition to the city council for locations for poles, guywires, or other apparatus for the transmission of electricity, shall be accompanied by a written report from the inspector of wires, including therein such recommendations as he may deem necessary.
(Rev. Ords. 1976, Pt. 2, Ch. 12, § 5A)
Whenever a utility company abandons a pole, it shall remove such pole within sixty (60) days from the installation of a new pole. Whoever willfully neglects or refuses to remove such pole shall be subject to a fine of twenty dollars ($20.00) a day for each day beyond the sixty-day period.
(Rev. Ords. 1976, Pt. 2, Ch. 12, § 8; A0173-12)
Any person doing any work coming under the provisions of this article or constructing, maintaining or operating a telegraph, shall provide the city with a surety satisfactory to the city council in a penal sum not less than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00). Such bond shall be conditioned to indemnify and save harmless the city against all damage, cost, expense and loss whatsoever to which it may be subjected in consequence of the acts and neglect of such persons, their agents, officers and servants in any manner arising from or growing out of the use and transmission of electricity, the privileges permitted by the city, and the construction, maintenance, operation and the use of lines, wires, cables, conduits, posts, poles, structures, constructions, fixtures and apparatus. The bond shall be also conditioned to fulfill all agreements with the city, all the orders, conditions and obligations imposed by the city council or by chapter 253 of the Acts of 1915, and all obligations and duties required by law, and by this article and every other ordinance, and all additions and amendments relating thereto. A new bond of like import and with new surety may at any time be required by the city, which new bond shall be a strengthening bond, unless the surety on former bonds is expressly released from further liability by vote of the city council. Bonds required by this section shall be filed with the City Clerk.
(Rev. Ords. 1976, Pt. 2, Ch. 12, § 11)
Every person owning, leasing or operating any wires within the city, either overhead or underground, shall annually furnish to the inspector of wires plans or other suitable information providing an accurate record of all additions or alterations to or removals from their overhead or underground wiring systems.
(Rev. Ords. 1976, Pt. 2, Ch. 12, § 13)
In all conduits constructed under the provisions of chapter 253 of the Special Acts of 1915, and any other general or special law, ordinance or authority, such sufficient and necessary space as shall be determined by the inspector of wires shall be reserved free of expense for the use of the city exclusively for municipal purposes. The city, by its --inspector of wires or his agent, shall be allowed access to such conduits at all times. The city shall be allowed equal facilities and privileges with others using the same conduits in installing, removing and maintaining wires. The extent and location of such space shall be subject to the approval of the inspector of wires.
(Rev. Ords. 1976, Pt. 2, Ch. 12, § 14)
Whenever installations shall be made under the provisions of chapter 253 of the Special Acts of 1915, any other general or special statute or ordinance or authority to erect and maintain poles, or to construct conduits or other fixtures in the public ways, bridges or grounds, to support or carry lines or wires for the transmission of electricity, the person to whom such permission is granted shall file with the inspector of wires within thirty (30) days from the date of such installations a detailed report of the installations that have been made. Failure to file such report in detail satisfactory to the inspector of wires shall cause such authorization to be null and void.
(Rev. Ords. 1976, Pt. 2, Ch. 12, § 15; A0173-12)
In case the city finds it necessary to construct or enlarge sewers or other public works in streets where conduits are laid, which shall require changing the locations of such conduits, such changing, when required by the city council, shall be at the expense of the company owning the conduits, who shall forthwith carry out the same, but the city council before ordering a given change shall give the company notice and an opportunity to be heard.
(Rev. Ords. 1976, Pt. 2, Ch. 12, § 16)
Any department of the city, person, or private contractor excavating in any public way, shall before making any excavations notify, in writing, the inspector of wires.