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)