The commissioner of streets and sanitation is hereby authorized to install a device on street lamps, brackets, or poles of the city for the purpose of diverting direct rays of light which interfere with the comfort or are detrimental to the health of any person residing near such lamp and on the same side of the street, whenever said commissioner of streets and sanitation shall find that the aforesaid conditions exist; provided an application for such installation is made and the applicant therefor pays in advance to the city the sum of $2.00 to cover the cost of the installation of such device, and the sum of $1.00 to cover the cost of the maintenance of such device for a period of one year. Such device may be maintained by the city after the first year upon the payment in advance of the sum of $1.00 to cover the cost of such maintenance. All devices installed under the provisions of this section shall remain the property of the city and shall be removed by the commissioner of streets and sanitation whenever he shall find that the same interfere with the proper lighting of the street or that the conditions requiring the installation no longer exist.
No person other than the duly authorized employees of the department of streets and sanitation shall place or attempt to place on any such post any device for the obstruction of the light of a street lamp of the city or shall interfere with a device placed in accordance with the provisions of this section.
(Prior code § 34-24)