No telegraph, telephone, electric light, and power poles, wires, tubes, cables, and other wires and lines, and no constricting of sewers, sewer connections, drains, water lines, gas lines, and other utilities equipment shall hereafter be placed on, under, or above the surface of any public way or lot within the corporate boundaries of the city without first obtaining a permit from the Mayor or his or her designee.
(1996 Code, § 11-8.01) Penalty, see § 90.999