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.