Every telegraph company which has accepted the provisions, restrictions and obligations of an Act of Congress, approved July 24, 1866, occupying the public ways and other public places within the city with its poles, wires, posts, piers, abutments, conduits, electrical conductors and other fixtures and appliances used in the electrical or physical dispatch of telegraph messages, shall be subject to all existing ordinances of the city now in force or which may hereafter be in force relating to the construction, maintenance, operation or inspection of telegraph poles, wires, posts, piers, abutments, conduits, electrical conductors or other fixtures and appliances used in the electrical or physical dispatch of telegraph messages, and shall be subject to all existing ordinances now in force or which may hereafter be in force relating to public ways and other public places and the use thereof; provided, that the federal rights of said telegraph companies are in no manner impaired or lessened thereby.
(Added Coun. J. 12-9-92, p. 25465)