When any person desires the passage by Council of an ordinance conferring the right or privilege on them to use or occupy the streets, lanes, alleys or other highways of the City for the erection of poles or wires, or for the construction of tracks thereon, or for the laying of pipes or conduits thereunder, or for any other overhead, surface or underground construction or apparatus, before such ordinance shall be printed for the use of the members of Council prior to the first reading thereof, such person for or on whose account such ordinance shall have been introduced, shall pay to the City Treasurer fifty dollars ($50.00) for each ordinance to cover the cost of printing the same. All payments so made to the City Treasurer shall be applied to the credit of the proper item of the supply department appropriation.
(1944 Code Ch. 1 § 7.)