Editor's note: For related unconsolidated provisions, see Appendix A at L.L. 1996/059.
Editor's note: For related unconsolidated provisions, see Appendix A at L.L. 1996/059.
a. It shall be unlawful for any person to take up the pavement of any street, or to excavate for the purpose of laying any gas distribution lines, or any electrical conductors underground, or of constructing subways, or of erecting poles, unless permission in writing therefor shall have been first obtained from the commissioner of transportation. It shall be unlawful to string, lay or maintain any gas distribution lines, or any electrical conductors above or below the surface of any street, in any part of the city, without written permission from the commissioner of transportation. The commissioner of transportation shall determine whether any extension of the existing electrical conductors of any person shall be by means of overhead or underground conductors.
b. Violations. Any person who shall violate any provision of this section, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less then two hundred fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or imprisonment for thirty days or both.
a. It shall be unlawful for any gas, telephone or electric light company, or any person to lay or install any pipes, mains or conduits for the use and transmission of gas, electricity, pneumatic power or steam, or to perform any work that is under the jurisdiction, cognizance and control of the commissioner of transportation, in any street, or public place, without a written permit from the commissioner of transportation.
b. It shall be unlawful to violate any provision of this section or any notice or special direction thereunder, under a penalty of not less than two hundred fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars for each offense.
a. After the grade of any street in the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx shall have been finally determined and established, whenever, in the opinion of the board of estimate it shall be practicable to remove the electrical conductors above ground in such street and place them underground, the commissioner of transportation shall notify the owners or operators of such conductors. Notice shall be to the effect that such electrical conductors must be removed within a certain time, sufficient for removal, which shall be fixed by such commissioner. In the case of a corporation duly authorized to lay and operate electrical conductors underground in such street, the time shall be sufficient for the proper laying of conductors underground in place of those removed.
b. All electrical conductors authorized to be placed underground, shall be so placed under and in accordance with the provisions of sections 24-410 through 24-415 of the code. Whenever application shall be made to the commissioner of transportation for permission to place underground electrical conductors in any such street, if such permission be granted, the subways therefor shall be constructed or provided, and such electrical conductors placed underground under and in accordance with the provisions of such sections. Such permission shall be granted only in accordance with the provisions of such sections.
Any company, operating or intending to operate electrical conductors in the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx, if it shall desire or be required to place its conductors or any of them underground in any of the streets of such boroughs, must remove such conductors from the surface of such streets, when duly authorized so to do. It shall be obligatory upon such company to file with the commissioner of transportation a map or maps, made to scale, showing the streets which are desired to be used for such purpose, and giving the general location, dimensions and course of the underground conduits desired to be constructed. Before any such conduits shall be constructed, it shall be necessary to obtain the approval of such commissioner of transportation of the plan of construction proposed by such company. The commissioner of transportation has and shall have power to require that the work of removal and of constructing every such system of underground conductors shall be done according to such plan so approved, subject at all times to such modifications as shall be made by him or her from time to time, and subject also to such rules and regulations as may be promulgated by him.
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