[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of
the City of Lancaster as Article 959 of the Codified Ordinances. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
No telegraph, electric light, telephone and
fire alarm poles and fire plugs in the streets, lanes or alleys of
the city shall be used for the purpose of posting or tacking posters
thereon or be used in any way as an advertising medium.
Each pole of telegraph, electric light, telephone
and fire alarm shall be painted.
Hereafter no telegraph, telephone, electric
light or street railway company or any other corporation or company
or person shall erect or cause to be erected or maintained or change
the location of any pole now erected on any of the streets, alleys
or highways in the city without first having obtained a permit. The
Mayor shall specify the number, size and location of the pole or poles
to be erected. The Mayor shall issue the permit after the Council
has approved of the proposed erection or change of location.
[Added 5-28-2013 by Ord.
No. 3-2013]
Permits under this chapter shall not be issued unless upon payment
of certain fees to the City of Lancaster related to the erection,
replacement and maintenance of poles. Such fees shall be set, from
time to time, by resolution of the City Council and shall be fixed
so as to recover City costs and expenses related to erection and replacement
of poles, as well as certain charges related to annual maintenance
of such poles in the City rights-of-way. Such fees may be fixed on
a per-pole basis.
The erection or changing of all poles shall
be under the direction and supervision of the Director of the Department
of Public Works and the Council. The locating of any poles shall not
be considered as permanent but subject to change by the party by whom
the same shall be erected as directed by the Council.
The removal of a pole shall mean the taking
of it out of the ground, and no pole shall be cut off and the stump
allowed to remain in the ground. The removal and replacing of all
poles shall be under the direction and supervision of the Director
of the Department of Public Works.
