No person, firm or corporation shall ever exercise any franchise or privilege mentioned in this article except in so far as he or she or it may be entitled to do so by direct authority of the constitution of California or of the Constitution or laws of the United States, in, upon, over, under or along any street, or other public place in the city unless he or she or it shall have obtained a grant therefor in accordance with the provisions of this article and of this Charter.
Editor's note: This section was amended by the voters of the city on March 26, 1996.