The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-09-01
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FILE OF SELECT COUNCIL, No. 23, 1894
A N ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE
II levy and collection of license taxes upon
poles erected and maintained for the con-
ventenc. and support of electric wires with.
in the city of Scranton.
SECTION !. Be it ordained by the select nd
common councils of the city of Scranton and
II Is hereby ordained by the authority of the
same, That all telegraph, telephone, electric
nght and street raj way poles and any other
poles now erected OF hereafter to be erected
Tor the conveyance or support of electric
wires for profit upon any street. lane, alley,
court or city property within the city of
Scranton, which are or shall be owned by any
corporation, partnership or individual other
than the municipality itself, shall be desig-
mated by the name or initial Of such owner or
owners, and each Of said poles shall have a
distinctive number and also bear the words
Post no bills" which, together with the
name or initial, shall be legibly marked with
oil paint upon the poles so designated
Sc 2. 1t shall be the duty Of the owners to
mark the poles now erected within ninety 900
days after the passage Of this ordinances, and
any poles hereafter to be erected within thirty
800 days after their erection.
SEC. 3. 1t shall be the duty of every such
owner OF owners on or before April |, 1895,
and annually thereafter to apply to the city
treasurer for license to maintain the poles
heretofore erected for the ensuing year, speci.
Tying the poles to be maintained by their des.
isnaUlOn as PROVIDED 1Or IN tnlS ordinance,
and the city treasurer shall issue such license
to such applicant upon payment to him for the
use of the city of the sum of fifty cents for
each ana every pole authorized to be main
tanned thereby, which license shall authorize
the maintenance Of the poles designated in
such application only for the period of one
year, to DO computed from the first day of
April Of each and every year, and no longer.
SEC. 4. Within one year after the passage of
this ordinance, all poles now stan ding and all
cross arms attached thereto shall be painted
uniform dark green color, and all new poles
and arms hereafter erected shall be similarly
painted within six months after their erec-
tion.
Sec. 8. It shall be the duty Of the police de-
partment to make a semi-annual inspection of
the poles herein specified and report any vio-
lation in the marking thereof of such poles to
the street commissioner, who is hereby EN-.
powered and directed to remove any such
pole or poles found without the proper marks
Of Identification required by this ordinance.
SEC. 9. Any person, co-partnershp or COR
poration failing to take out the license herein.
before mentioned or refusing to pay the Ii.
cense tax required by this ordinance, or who
shall violate any other provision thereof ex-
cept in the marking OF the polls shall be sub.
ject to penalty of five dollars (S5.00) for each
and every ffense, to be sued for and recovered
in the manner now provided by law for the
recovery of like penalties, and the erection or
maintenance of any fingle pole in violation of
the provisions of this ordinance shall consti
tute distinct and separate offense thereun-
der.
SEC. Z. The city clerk Is hereby directed to
publish this ordinance once a week for three
weeks in two daily newspapers of general cir
culationi in the city of Scranton.
Approved Aug l6, 1894.
W. l.. CoNNELL, Mayor.