Every corporation, association or person owning or operating
a wire or wires over streets, alleys or buildings within the city
limits shall use only wires that are suitable and strong, and shall
safely attach them to strong and sufficient supports and insulate
them at all points of attachment; shall remove all wires when use
thereof is abandoned; shall suitably insulate every wire where it
enters a building; and if such wire is for any purpose other than
electric light or power current, shall attach to it at suitable points
in the circuit an appliance calculated to prevent fire near the place
of entrance of said building.
(1987 Code, ch. 3, sec. 10C; 2001
Code, sec. 3.903)
(a) All
electrical wiring hereafter installed in churches, theaters, other
places used for public gatherings, all buildings designed for occupancy
of more than three (3) families, and all buildings within the fire
limits shall be installed in suitable approved metallic conduits.
(b) All
service entrance equipment and apparatus shall be installed according
to specifications of the utilities department of the city.
(c) Location
of all service entrance equipment and apparatus shall be determined
by the utilities department of the city.
(1987 Code, ch. 3, sec. 10I; 2001
Code, sec. 3.909)
No wire or wires shall be installed or maintained over any street,
alley, sidewalk or building which may seriously interfere with the
work of the fire department, or which shall render hazardous the use
of fire escapes. Upon complaint of the fire chief, said obstruction
shall be removed or properly rearranged.
(1987 Code, ch. 3, sec. 10K; 2001
Code, sec. 3.911)
Wherever possible, signal wires shall not be carried on the
same pole with or in close proximity to electric light or power wires,
and where a joint occupancy pole line of these two (2) classes is
necessary, or where the routes of two (2) such systems cross each
other, the high potential electric light or power wires shall be placed
and maintained not less than four (4) feet above every signal wire,
and if it be found impossible to provide such a separation, the exception
thereto shall be under a method worked out and approved by the electrical
inspector after determining that such plan is safe and equitable.
(1987 Code, ch. 3, sec. 10L; 2001
Code, sec. 3.912)