CHAPTER 14.24
POLES, POSTS AND FENCES

SECTION:

14.24.010: Prohibited Generally

14.24.020: Telephone Poles

14.24.030: Electric Light Poles

14.24.040: City Permission Required When

14.24.050: Mailboxes

14.24.060: Fences

14.24.070: Posts On Property Abutting Public Highway

14.24.080: Reservation Of Poles For City Use

14.24.090: Violation Deemed Obstruction

14.24.010: PROHIBITED GENERALLY:

It is unlawful for any person to set, place, keep or maintain any pole, post, fence or like obstruction upon or along any public highway, road, street, avenue, lane, alley, trail, curb ramp or sidewalk in the city, except as designated in this chapter. (1999 Code)

14.24.020: TELEPHONE POLES:

Telephone poles shall be set along the pole line, with the face of the pole nearest the center of the street, one foot (1') toward the property line from the curb line or in that area designated for utilities. (1999 Code)

14.24.030: ELECTRIC LIGHT POLES:

Electric light or other poles for carrying electric current for commercial purposes shall be set in the same manner as telephone poles, one foot from the curb line or in that area designated for utilities. (1999 Code)

14.24.040: CITY PERMISSION REQUIRED WHEN:

No telephone, electric light or other pole used for support of wires carrying electric current shall be set on any public highway in the city without permission or a grant of right of way therefor being first obtained from the city. (1999 Code)

14.24.050: MAILBOXES:

Posts or structures for carrying or holding mailboxes shall be set either along the tree or pole line defined above for a sufficient distance back of the curb line so as not to obstruct the street, highway, sidewalk or curb ramp traffic. (1999 Code)

14.24.060: FENCES:

Fence posts may be set along a fence line, which is designated as the distance from the center of any highway not less than half the surveyed and platted width of the highway; no public highway in the city being regarded as surveyed and platted less than fifty feet (50') in width. It is unlawful to place or maintain any fence or building the face of which is nearer the center of any highway than the line designated as the fence line. (1999 Code)

14.24.070: POSTS ON PROPERTY ABUTTING PUBLIC HIGHWAY:

It is unlawful to set, place or maintain any telephone, electric light or current poles, trees, mail, sign or other posts, except as provided in this chapter, upon property abutting on any public highway in the city, at a point nearer to the fence line than a line centering one foot (1') therefrom on the side farthest from the center of the highway; and it is unlawful to set or maintain any sign or other post at a point nearer the centerline than one-half foot (1/2') from the outside of the outer limit of any alley or lane. (1999 Code)