13-12-830 Requirement before permits issued.

   Applications for permits shall be made in duplicate on a form to be approved by the commissioners of streets and sanitation and transportation.

   Applications shall be submitted to the commissioners of streets and sanitation, and transportation who shall cause the necessary inspection to be made.

   All applications for permits to erect poles in the streets and alleys of the city shall provide that the city may use the poles to be so erected and may attach thereto such necessary cross arms, wires or other electrical appliances as may be deemed necessary for the electrical service of the city, and no permit shall be issued by the commissioners of streets and sanitation, and transportation for the erection of such poles in which the application and permit does not provide for the privileges required by the city as herein contained.

(Added Coun. J. 11-3-99, p. 13842, § 2)

13-12-840 Inspection and fees.

   All apparatus installed under authority of a permit issued in accordance with this part of this article dealing with poles, wires, and conductors shall be inspected by the building department and department of transportation. The fee for the initial installation and inspection of poles, wires and conductors shall be as set forth section 13-32-310. The fee for any inspection other than the initial inspection shall be as set forth in Chapter 13-20.

   Said fees shall be paid to the comptroller before the commissioner of streets and sanitation and the commissioner of transportation countersign any such permit.

(Added Coun. J. 11-3-99, p. 13842, § 2; Amend Coun. J. 12-12-07, p. 17167, § 16; Amend Coun. J. 11-16-11, p. 13798, Art. I, § 10)

13-12-850 Removal of pole.

   No permission or authority shall be given to any person to erect any pole or poles for telegraph, telephone, or electric light or power purposes or for the purpose of stringing thereon wires, cables, or conveyors for the transmission of sounds or signals, or of heat, light, or power, or data, upon or along any public way within the city, except upon the express provision that such poles and conductors are to be and will be removed forthwith whenever the city council shall order such removal; provided however, that nothing in this part of this article on poles, wires and conductors shall apply to any pole or poles used solely for the carrying and support of its overhead contact trolley wires by any street railway company where it is claimed by such company that it is operating its cars under the authority of any ordinance of the city.

(Added Coun. J. 11-3-99, p. 13842, § 2)

13-12-860 Location.

   Such wires or conductors shall in no case be placed at a greater distance from the curbstone separating sidewalk from parkway than four feet (1.22 m), except in crossing streets running transversely to the direction of the said lines when such crossing shall be made in the shortest straight line, or in making necessary connections with buildings and stations.

(Added Coun. J. 11-3-99, p. 13842, § 2)

13-12-870 Impeding traffic.

   The method employed of laying said conductors shall be such that it will at no time be necessary to remove so much of the pavement, or to make such excavation, as to materially impede traffic or passage upon sidewalk or street during the operation of laying or repairing said conductors, except when crossing streets transversely, where authority may be granted to remove the pavement for a width not exceeding two feet in the nearest straight line from corner to corner. In no case during the general hours of passage and traffic shall passage be interrupted thereby for a period longer than one hour.

(Added Coun. J. 11-3-99, p. 13842, § 2)

13-12-880 Supervision.

   The work of removal and replacement of the pavements in any and all of the public ways and public places in and through which the wires of any company shall be laid, shall be subject to the control and supervision of the commissioner of transportation; excavations in any and all of the unpaved public ways or public places shall also be subject to like control and supervision. The space selected for placing said wires, the same in every case being limited as to direction and general position by the foregoing provisions, shall be of sufficient size to permit the installation of the necessary conductors and equipment.

(Added Coun. J. 11-3-99, p. 13842, § 2)

Part K. Violation of Article (13-12-890 et seq.)