(A) Poles and wires. No person, company, or corporation shall hereafter erect or maintain any telegraph, telephone, or electric light posts or poles; any telegraph or telephone wires; or electric light conductors in, upon, across, or along any street, avenue, alley, or public place within the city without having first obtained the permission and consent of the Council therefor in a manner provided by law.
(B) Damage to property. No person, company, or corporation obtaining such permission or authority from the Council, as aforesaid, shall so set, erect, or maintain any posts or poles or so place or hang any wires thereon as to impede or interfere with the public travel upon any street, avenue, alley, or sidewalk or so as to injure or damage any public or private property within the city.
(C) Public Works Committee. The setting or placing of all telegraph, telephone, or electric light posts or poles within the city shall be done under the direction and supervision of the Public Works Committee, whose duty it shall be to see that the poles used are of sufficient length and that the wires are elevated to such height as not to inconvenience or incommode the public in the free use of any street, avenue, alley, or highway, and it shall also be the duty of said Committee to prosecute or cause to be prosecuted all persons, companies, or corporations violating any of the provisions of this section.
(D) Destruction of pole and wires. No person shall willfully, maliciously, or negligently cut down, break, injure, or destroy any telegraph, telephone, or electric light pole or shall cut or break any wire or electric conductor or shall deface, injure, or destroy any telephone box or apparatus within said city, except in case of necessity from fire or other casualty.
(Prior Code, Chapter 14, Article 3) Penalty, see § 151.99