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RADIO INTERFERENCE
§ 95.015 RADIO INTERFERENCE PROHIBITED.
   (A)   (1)   No person, firm, copartnership, association or corporation knowingly or wantonly shall operate or cause to be operated, any machine, device, apparatus or instrument of any kind within the corporate limits of the city between the hours of 2:00 p.m. and 12:00 midnight, which shall cause reasonably preventable electrical interference with radio reception within municipal limits.
      (2)   However, X-ray pictures, examinations or treatments may be made at any time if the machines or apparatus are properly equipped to avoid all unnecessary or reasonably preventable interference with radio reception and are not negligently operated.
   (B)   (1)   No person, firm or corporation owning or operating any telephone, telegraph, fire alarm system, electric light and power systems, street or interurban railway or railroad system, roads, routes or lines, using electricity transmitted over or along wire transmission lines or by, through or over rails, should operate, use or maintain it so that the operation, use or maintenance shall cause reasonably preventable electrical interference with radio reception in the city.
      (2)   The operation, use and maintenance shall include all main and auxiliary equipment, machinery and apparatus used for the purpose of generating, distributing, transforming, delivering or using the electrical current.
   (C)   This section shall not be construed to cover the regulation of any transmitting, broadcasting or receiving instrument, apparatus or device used or useful in interstate commerce or the operation of which is licensed or authorized by the provisions of any act of the Congress of the United States.
(1979 Code, § 95.05) (Ord. 1201, passed 4-18-1931) Penalty, see § 95.999
§ 95.016 DIATHERMY MACHINES.
   Treatments may be made or administered at any time by the devices known as violet ray machines, machines using the Tesla coil or principle, diathermy machines and like apparatus, if the machine or apparatus is properly equipped to avoid all unnecessary or reasonably preventable interference with radio reception and is not negligently operated, and provided it is operated by a physician or surgeon duly licensed under the laws of Indiana, or any other practitioner of dentistry or any art of healing licensed under the laws of Indiana, who by virtue of his or her license is authorized to use any of these machines or apparatus in the art of healing, relieving or curing disease or human ailments in the practice of the branch, school or method of healing for which he or she is so licensed.
(1979 Code, § 95.06) (Ord. 1201, passed 4-18-1931) Penalty, see § 95.999
§ 95.017 INSPECTION BY CITY ELECTRICIAN.
   The City Electrician or his or her duly authorized deputies shall have the right to enter any premises at all reasonable hours for the purpose of inspecting the installation and working of all apparatus coming within the terms of §§ 95.015 through 95.019 and it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to interfere with the city officer or his or her duly authorized deputies in making the inspection or to refuse to permit the officer or his or her deputies to enter the premises for such purposes.
(1979 Code, § 95.07) (Ord. 1201, passed 4-18-1931) Penalty, see § 95.999
§ 95.018 NOTICE TO DISCONTINUE USE.
   (A)   When an inspection and test has been made by the City Electrician or his or her duly authorized deputies and it is found that equipment or apparatus coming within the terms of §§ 95.015 through 95.017 is being operated in violation of these sections, the person or persons responsible for the operation of the equipment shall be notified in writing to discontinue the use of the machine or to make additions, repairs or modifications in order that the machine may be operated in a manner which complies with these provisions. The mailing of a registered letter addressed to the owner or operator of the machine at the premises where the machine is located shall constitute a sufficient notice for the purpose of these sections. In the event that the owner or operator of the machine or apparatus does not, within 48 hours after the receipt of notice to repair or discontinue the use of the machine, repair it so that it complies with the provisions of §§ 95.015 through 95.017, the owner shall be deemed to be operating the machine or apparatus in violation of the provisions of these sections.
   (B)   When an inspection and test has been made by the City Electrician or his or her duly authorized deputies or agents, and it is found that any device or equipment coming within the terms of § 95.015(B) is being operated in violation of §§ 95.015 through 95.017, the person or persons, firm or corporation owning, operating or using the equipment, apparatus or device, shall be notified in writing to discontinue the use of the equipment, or to make additions, repairs or modifications in order to comply with the provisions of these sections. The mailing of a registered letter addressed to the owner, operator or user at his or her office in the city, or if no office is maintained at the residence in the city, or if no office or residence is maintained in the city at the last post office address known to the City Electrician, shall constitute a sufficient notice for the purpose of §§ 95.015 through 95.017.
   (C)   In the event that the owner, operator or user of the offending apparatus, device or equipment, does not, within 48 hours after the receipt of the notice, either repair the apparatus, device or equipment so that it complies with the provisions of §§ 95.015 through 95.017 or discontinue the use thereof, the owner, user or operator shall be deemed to be using and operating the apparatus, device or equipment in violation of the terms of these sections.
(1979 Code, § 95.08) (Ord. 1201, passed 4-18-1931) Penalty, see § 95.999
§ 95.019 WIRES COMING IN CONTACT WITH TREES.
   Where any transmission or communicating line of any electric light or power company, telegraph or telephone company, or any fire alarm lines or other electrical transmission lines shall lawfully be located and placed on pole lines so that the wires pass through trees located in the parkway between the outer edge of any sidewalk and the inner edge of any street curb and by reason of the growth of the tree the wires come in contact with the trees, limbs or branches and cause radio interference as prohibited by §§ 95.015 through 95.017, the City Electrician is authorized to make an inspection of the condition and if he or she finds that the interference is caused by this condition, he or she shall serve a notice as provided in § 95.018 upon the owner, user or operator of the lines and the user, operator or owner shall within 48 hours from the receipt of the notice repair the defect. For the purpose of making the repair the City Electrician is given the right to reasonably and properly prune or trim the tree so as to remove the cause of the interference, but he or she shall not unnecessarily cut, prune, or trim the tree beyond the extent necessary to remove the interference.
(1979 Code, § 95.09) (Ord. 1201, passed 4-18-1931) Penalty, see § 95.999
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