14.44.120   Responsibility of property owners.
   All necessary electrical conduits, conductors and associated equipment to receive electrical service between an underground pull box and the main switches in the building or structure being served, and all necessary conduits and associated equipment to receive telephone or telegraph service between an underground pull box or the point of connection with an underground system and the building or structure being served shall be provided by the person owning, operating, leasing, or renting said property, subject to applicable rules, regulations and tariffs of the respective utility or utilities, on file with the commission. If the above is not accomplished by such person within the time provided for in the resolution adopted pursuant to Section 14.44.030, and the supplying utility is thereby prevented from removing its overhead service wire, the public works director shall and is hereby directed to take legal steps to disconnect such service wires from the premises of such person, and the cost of so doing shall become a lien on the property theretofore served from the said service wires.
(Prior code § 23.121 (Ord. 1076 §4, Ord. 1133 §9, Ord. 2268, Ord. 2364 §175, Ord. 2439 §98)