[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Commissioners
(now Township Council) of the Township of Bristol 3-6-1951 by Ord. No.
4; amended in its entirety 10-20-1992 by Ord. No. 92-17. Amendments noted where applicable.]
A.
All telegraph, telephone, trolley, electric light
and similar poles erected within the boundaries of any public highway,
road, street, avenue, public lane or public alley in the Township
of Bristol shall be lettered or stenciled with the initials of the
owners or with some other designation of ownership, together with
a number for the same. A complete record showing the location and
number of each pole in the Township of Bristol shall be filed with
the Managing Director annually, on or before March 1, by the owner
or owners of said poles.
B.
On and after January 1, 1969, an annual license charge
or inspection fee per pole as shall be set from time to time by ordinance
or resolution of the Township Council[1] shall be and hereby is assessed on all poles erected within
any public highway, street, avenue, lane or alley in the Township
of Bristol.
Any owner, person, firm, association or corporation
who shall violate any of the provisions of this chapter or who shall
fail to comply with any of the conditions or requirements of any permit
granted in accordance with any of the provisions of this chapter shall,
upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than
$600, plus costs of prosecution, and in default of payment of such
fine and costs, to imprisonment in the county jail for not more than
30 days; provided that a new and separate offense shall be deemed
to have been committed for each day that any such violation exists;
and provided further that if any violation of any of the provisions
of this chapter shall also constitute a violation of any specific
provision in the laws of Pennsylvania, prosecution for such violation
shall be under such law and not under this chapter.
