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.)