Every person, company or corporation maintaining, owning, controlling or operating any electric line, wires, cables or appliances of any kind for electric lights, power, telephone, telegraph or any purpose whatsoever in the City of Flint, its public streets, alleys and grounds, shall, when ordered by the City Council and notified of such order by the Chief of Police, cause its wires and other appliances to be raised or so arranged as to permit the passage on any such street, lane, alley or public place, of any building or other structure that is being moved from one part of the City to the other, when said removal is authorized by the City Council; provided, however, that in the removal of such buildings, the streets, lanes, alleys or public places shall not be obstructed thereby or the wires or other appliances raised or otherwise arranged to permit the passage of the building shall not be interfered with for any greater length of time than is absolutely necessary to move said building over and across the said streets, lanes or alleys or public places or under said wires so raised or arranged for the passage of the building or other structure.
(Ord. 43, passed 8-6-1904)
Cross-reference:
Poles and Wires, see Ch. 37