Whenever the Superintendent of Public Works deems it for the public interest, he or she may require, as a condition to the issuance of any permit, that wires be laid in public conduits. If wires are strung on poles along any highway and public conduits are afterwards laid therein, the Superintendent may require the wires so strung upon poles to be taken down and in their stead suitable wires put in the public conduit, and upon any refusal to do so may remove the same. Council shall prescribe the terms and conditions upon which the public conduits shall be used for each purpose, provided that communication or power lines shall not be required to be laid in the same public conduit.
(1979 Code Sec. 13.28.130)