CHAPTER 37: POLES AND WIRES

Section

Article I. In General

   37-1   Approval required of underground installations

Article II. Electrical Supply or Communications Lines

   37-2   Applicability of article

   37-2.1   Persons or companies installing and/or maintaining utility lines within public rights-of-way — to indemnify City against costs and damages

   37-2.2   Same — to file acceptance of terms and agreements with Director of Public Works and Utilities

   37-2.3   Same — notification by Director to correct hazardous conditions; work performed by City

   37-3   Application for permit to set poles

   37-4   Injury to drains, pavements and the like, caused by installation of poles; removal of unused poles

   37-5   Attachment of fire and police signal system wire to existing poles

   37-6   Relocation of poles

   37-7   City’s expense in enforcing article

   37-8   Applicability of other laws and ordinances

Article III. Underground District

   37-9   Designated

   37-10   Poles or overhead wires prohibited

   37-11   Placing transformers on overhead structures

   37-12   Electrical metal raceway works

Cross-reference:

   Buildings, see Ch. 11

   Electricity, see Ch. 16

   Heating, see Ch. 22

   Housing, see Ch. 24

   Raising or rearranging wires during moving of buildings and the like, see §§ 11-15, 11-16

   Utilities, see Ch. 46

ARTICLE I. IN GENERAL

§ 37-1 APPROVAL REQUIRED OF UNDERGROUND INSTALLATIONS.

   It shall be unlawful for any person to lay or place, or cause to be placed underground, or to make or cause to be made an excavation in any street, alley or public place in the City for the laying or placing therein of any electric, telephone or telegraph wires, cables or conduits, or any water or gas mains or pipes, until there shall have been filed with the Department of Public Works and Utilities, and approved by the City Council, or in the case of a telecommunications provider, compliance with §§ 15-63 through 15-83, detailed plans and maps showing the proposed size, character and location of the wires, cables, conduits, mains or pipes, or lay or place, or cause to be laid or placed any such electric, telephone or telegraph wires, cables, conduits, mains or pipes, in any such street, alley or public place, not in conformity with such maps or plans, when approved by the City Council, or if a telecommunications provider, not in conformity with §§ 15-63 through 15-83.

(Ord. 98, passed 7-23-1917; Ord. 3511, passed 4-28-2003)