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§ 24-401 Engineers. [Repealed]
§ 24-402 Consulting engineers. [Repealed]
§ 24-404 Permits; excavations in street; gas distribution lines; electrical conductors.
§ 24-405 Permit required.
§ 24-406 Removal of electric wires; Manhattan and the Bronx.
§ 24-407 Underground electrical conductors; Manhattan and the Bronx.
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§ 24-413 Enforcement of agreement and of provisions of sections 24-407 through 24-414 of the code.
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§ 24-415 Conditions to granting permit for conduit construction; security.
§ 24-416 Underground electrical conductors; Brooklyn, Queens and Richmond.
§ 24-417 Telegraph, telephone or electric light poles on Eighth avenue between Flatbush avenue and Ninth street in Brooklyn.
§ 24-418 Procedure.
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§ 24-420 Replacement of lamp-posts or electric light poles.
§ 24-421 Electric light, power; inspection of; all wires to be inspected.
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§ 24-424 Annual safety report concerning gas infrastructure.
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§ 24-401 Engineers. [Repealed]
Editor's note: For related unconsolidated provisions, see Appendix A at L.L. 1996/059.
§ 24-402 Consulting engineers. [Repealed]
Editor's note: For related unconsolidated provisions, see Appendix A at L.L. 1996/059.
§ 24-404 Permits; excavations in street; gas distribution lines; electrical conductors.
   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.

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