No company engaged in furnishing telephone,
telegraph, electric light or power, or television cable service, or
any employee thereof, shall hereafter erect, locate or place any pole,
post or structure designed and intended for the support of telephone,
telegraph or electric light or power or other wires in any street
or public place in the City or hereafter place, string or locate any
wires or cables intended for use in such service in any street or
public place in the City except by and with the express consent in
writing of the Superintendent of Engineering Services.
Nothing herein contained shall prevent the replacement
or substitution in kind of existing poles, fixtures or wires, providing
the number thereof is not increased; or the change in existing secondary
mains for electric light and power service to other secondary mains,
as may be required, providing the voltage thereof is not increased;
or the installation or change of service wires of subscribers.
Every application for a permit hereunder shall
state the intended location of each pole or structure and the number
of wires to be carried thereon, the location of new wires or cables,
the purpose to be served by proposed additional poles, wires and cables,
and the existing condition in such street or public place as to poles,
wires and cables.
No two lines of poles intended to carry or carrying
a like class of conductors shall be erected in the same street except
with the approval of the Council.
A.
Every company owning and operating telephone, telegraph
or electric light or power wires or television cable wires in the
City shall file in the office of the Superintendent of Engineering
Services a map showing the location of all pole lines and the number
of wires and cables carried thereon.
B.
Any permitted extension or addition of any telephone,
telegraph or electric light or power wire or television cable wire
shall be approximately shown upon such map of the Superintendent of
Engineering Services, and such map shall at all times be kept up-to-date,
in order to show all poles, lines, wires, cables and extensions thereof.
A.
Locations. No posts or poles designed to carry or
support telephone, telegraph or other wires or cables shall be erected
within five feet of any hydrant or so as to interfere with any water
or gas pipe, underground main or conduit, or any driveway. No such
poles shall be placed or left in the traveled portion of any highway
or between curblines, as the same may be defined by curbs actually
set or as defined by the Superintendent of Engineering Services.
B.
Trimming, arms and wires. All such poles shall be
straight and properly trimmed, and the crossarms shall be not less
than 25 feet in height from the ground and may contain such arms for
the carrying of wires as the Superintendent of Engineering Services
may approve. The Superintendent of Engineering Services shall direct
the placing of such arms and the number of wires to be carried thereon.
C.
Removal of wires and poles. All broken and dead wires
and all poles and fixtures not actually in use must be removed from
the street or highway immediately. In case of any broken wire the
current shall immediately be shut off at the switch or main office,
and the person or company controlling, operating or using such wire
shall immediately remove the same from the traveled portion of the
highway.
A.
Overhead construction prohibited where subway is available.
No wires, fixtures, poles or other overhead construction for the purpose
of carrying wires or cables of any kind shall be erected in any street
or public place where or in which there is situated or located a suitable
and sufficient subway designed for the purpose of carrying wires or
cables underground, whether the same is owned or controlled by the
City or by some company or person with the consent of the City. In
case any person or company owning, controlling or operating any such
wires refuses to place the same in said subway because of insufficient
outlets or other facilities, specifications of the need of such person
or company as to outlets required in such subway for its reasonable
needs shall be immediately given to the Superintendent of Engineering
Services in writing. The owner of any subway shall provide and furnish
such suitable outlets or facilities as the Superintendent of Engineering
Services may direct.
B.
Lanes or alleyways. No person or company shall erect,
construct, place or maintain poles, wires, fixtures and overhead construction
in lanes or alleyways in the rear of buildings fronting on streets,
or parts thereof, in which subways are constructed and maintained,
unless by and with the express consent of the Superintendent of Engineering
Services.
C.
Subway construction. All subway construction, including
installation of wires, outlets, and connections, and all operation
and maintenance of such subway, including wires, cables and fixtures
of every kind, shall be made and done in accordance with established
practice, the directions of the Superintendent of Engineering Services,
and the rules and regulations therefor approved or established by
the Underwriters' Association. High- and low-tension wires shall not
be placed either in the same box or in the same manhole.
D.
Use of subway manholes restricted.
(1)
Protection of public. Whenever a subway manhole is
opened the person so opening or using the same shall place an iron
frame over such opening with a suitable red light or flag as a warning.
When so opened one person shall always be provided by the user to
act as a guard on the surface of each manhole so opened for the purpose
of guarding and warning users of the highway.
(2)
Smoking. There shall be no smoking in or around any
manhole or subway.
(3)
Tampering. No person shall, without direct authority
or right, interfere or tamper with, molest or open any manhole connected
with any subway or deface, damage or break or remove any conduit,
duct, wire, cable or appliance situated in or connected with such
subway.
E.
Duties of subway users. All users of subways shall
make such alterations and repairs to their wires, cables and conductors
as may be reasonably necessary for the safe and proper use of such
subway and shall observe and follow all directions and orders of the
Superintendent of Engineering Services in reference thereto.
