Loading...
(a) Every person or entity, including the City of Cleveland, who is the owner or occupant of a pole located within a street or right-of-way in the City of Cleveland shall permit, upon reasonable terms and conditions and the payment of reasonable charge to the owner or occupant, the attachment of any wire, cable, facility or apparatus to its poles by any other person or entity including the City of Cleveland; provided that:
(1) The attaching person or entity is authorized by the City of Cleveland or otherwise permitted by law to make the attachment; and
(2) The attachment will not unreasonably interfere with the services and operations of the owner or occupant of the pole; and
(3) The attachment will not create a safety hazard as defined by the National Electric Safety Code; and
(4) The pole is used only for service within the City of Cleveland, or the pole supports a conductor having a voltage of less than twenty-two thousand (22,000) volts.
(b) Such terms and conditions, and such charges, as are established in tariffs approved by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio or in the case of the City of Cleveland, those terms, conditions, and charges established pursuant to Section 523.23 of the Codified Ordinances, as they may be amended from time to time, shall be deemed to be “reasonable terms and conditions” and “reasonable charges” for the purposes of subsection (a) above.
(Ord. No. 1989-90. Passed 8-23-90, eff. 8-31-90)
(a) No person, firm or corporation shall lay or construct or cause to be laid or constructed any subways, conduits, ducts or pipes in the streets, avenues or alleys within the City without first having obtained a permit therefor under a valid and existing ordinance from the Director of Public Service, under the penalty provided in Section 503.99(c).
(b) No person, firm or corporation shall lay or construct or cause to be laid or constructed any subways, conduits, ducts or pipes in any public grounds or in any real property of the City, without first having obtained a permit therefor under a valid and existing ordinance from the director of the department having the supervision and control of such public grounds or real property, under the penalty provided in Section 503.99(c).
(c) Any company or individual so placing wires underground in any street, alley or public ground of the City shall, upon written notice from the proper authorities of the City that a sewer or water main is to be repaired or constructed in such manner as will necessitate the moving or altering of any conduit of the company or individual, move or alter the same at his, her or its expense, so as to permit the constructing or repairing of the sewer or water main where ordered. Should any such person or company fail to comply with such notice the conduit may be altered or moved by the City and the cost and expense thereof recovered from the person or company.
(Ord. No. 117-A-49. Passed 2-27-50)
All companies and persons engaged in the manufacture and sale of gas in the City to the City or the inhabitants thereof, and occupying the public streets, lanes, alleys, avenues and grounds of the City, with mains, pipes and apparatus for the distribution of such gas shall, when requested by the Director of Public Service, either file in the office of the Director accurate maps and plans for all such public streets, lanes, alleys, avenues and grounds, showing the location, depth and size of such mains and pipes, together with all street boxes, safety valves, gauges and apparatus or every kind in the streets and public grounds, or shall allow such access to their own records, and shall furnish such data as shall enable the Director to make or cause to be made such maps and plans as are hereinbefore described. No permits shall be issued to any such company or person to lay any pipes, mains or apparatus in any of the public streets or grounds of the City until such company or person has first filed with the Director an accurate plan of the streets and public grounds in which such mains, pipes and apparatus are to be laid, showing the location, size and depth of the same.
No gas meter used for measuring gas furnished by any gas company to any individual, company or corporation within the City, shall be disconnected or removed by any person not an officer or employee of the gas company owning the same, without permission in writing from the Director of Public Service.
No person shall hereafter place any main gas pipe along any street, lane, alley or public ground, nearer than fifteen (15) feet to any shade or ornamental trees thereon, unless such person shall first obtain from the Director of Public Service a written permit to do so.
The Director of Public Service may give written notice to any gas company, which has or may hereafter lay down any gas pipe, to remove the same forthwith, so as to comply with the provisions of Section 503.10.
(a) Barriers, barricades or standard guard railings shall be provided for guarding open manholes, hand holes, gratings or excavations. Visual warning devices shall at all times be provided for such barriers, barricades and guard railings. Such warning devices shall be visible to vehicular traffic at least two hundred (200) feet from such openings. Testing equipment shall be provided and a standard procedure established by the employer, contractor or person in charge to determine the presence of air contaminants or a deficiency of oxygen.
Air contaminants or oxygen deficiency shall be controlled, minimized or purged by one (1) or more of the following methods:
(1) Removal at source by local exhaust ventilation;
(2) Removal by general ventilation;
(3) Removal by dilution ventilation; or
(4) Respiratory equipment furnished by the employer which provides protection equal to or greater than that approved by the U.S. Bureau of Mines, where there are air contaminants or where there is a deficiency of oxygen in the air. The air or oxygen supplied to a supplied air helmet shall be of the positive pressure type. The air supplied air helmets or other supplied air breathing apparatus shall be filtered.
Ladders shall be provided for entering or leaving a manhole, vault or other similar underground area.
The fixtures to which lamp sockets and plugs are attached will in all cases, be explosion-proof, vapor-proof, moisture-proof and dust-proof. All extension cords shall be made of heavy duty cord. All lamps shall be guarded.
(b) Where safety equipment is provided as outlined in subsection (a) hereof, it shall be the responsibility of the employee or employees working at or in the manhole to use that equipment.
(c) No person shall move or remove any barrier, barricades or standard guard railings, as provided in subsection (a) hereof, except where necessary to complete any work in and around such opening and only by persons authorized to work at the site of the opening.
(d) The employer, contractor or person in charge of work in and around any open manholes, hand holes, gratings or excavations, and their agents on the job, shall at the conclusion of work for that day, where feasible, replace any covering previously removed during the course of the work, or if not practicable, then by securely placing a temporary barrier across any such opening, and provide the visual warning devices required by subsection (a) hereof.
(e) However, the aforementioned provisions requiring the testing for air contaminants or oxygen shall not apply to any open hand holes, gratings or excavations that are less than five (5) feet in depth.
(Ord. No. 769-76. Passed 4-12-76, eff. 4-12-76)
Loading...