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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)
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)
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)
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.)
Any person who violates this article, or who maintains any electrical wiring and apparatus found to be dangerous to life and property, shall be fined in accordance with Section 13-12-040 for each offense. Each day such violation continues shall constitute a separate and distinct offence, and so much of any electrical installation as may be erected or altered and maintained in violation of this article or of Title 14E shall be condemned and the building commissioner is hereby empowered to cut off and discontinue current to such electrical wires and apparatus.
(Added Coun. J. 11-3-99, p. 13842, § 2; Amend Coun. J. 9-6-17, p. 55278, Art. II, § 13; Amend Coun. J. 11-21-17, p. 61858, Art. VIII, § 9)