Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-05-04
AN ORDINANCE.

A ORDINANCE.
Permitting the Delaware and Atlantic TeIe-
graph and Telephone Company, corporation
organized under the laws of the State OF New
Jersey, to maintain and operate to place poles
and string wires and to construct conduits in
along, over, across, through and under the
streets. highways and alleys of the City of
| Woodbury., for the transmission of electricity
for telegraph and telephone purposes
Be it enacted by the Mayor and Council OF the
City of Woodbury..
Section l. That permission be and is hereby
granted to the Delaware and Atlantic Telegraph
| and Telephone Company to establish and oper-
ate a telephone exchange in the CITY Of Wood
bury, to erect poles and place or string wires
thereon to be used in connection with said ex-
change principal Office in, over across
alleys of the City of Woodbury., land to attach
! their wires to the poles of any other Telephone
Telegraph or Electric Light Company, with
their consent erected IN said streets, highways
or alleys, with the privilege of carrying branch
1 lines to connect the residences aud places of
business OF its patrons With the main lines of
said Company for the transmission OF electricity
for telephone or telegraph purposes, and to
maintain and operate the same. provided that
charges fer local service to its patrons within
(Sl2O0) dollars pei year.
Section 2. That all poles erected within the
City limits by said Company, shall be Of
straight sound chestnut, locust or pine timber
neatly dressed before being erected, and not less
diameter at the top. and we'll proportioned: or
OF iron not less than five 81 inches in diameter
at the top or eight (sl inches at the surface of
the pavement, set twelve (12) inches back from
the face of the curb and not less than FIVE (51
feet in the ground In all cases of poles erected
and maintained, they shall be as least four az
feet from ire plugs and gas lamps The poles
shall be well and neatly painted of dark olive
green color not less than ten (l0l feet in height
from the surface Of the ground, and when loeat-
ed, the consent of the property own shall first
be obtained, before the erection of any poles in
front thereof, and the location of all poles in
the streets, highways and alleys shall WAYS be
subject to the supervision and control of the
Street Committee OF said City. All pavements
broken for the erection of poles must be repair
ed by said Company Immediately upon COM
pietion of the work. No telegraph or telephone
wires will be permitted to be suspended or
maintained through or between electric light
wires, electric light wires be permitted to be
suspended maintained through or between
telephone or telegraph wires unless throughly
insulated and secured TO proper support on a
pole, and in cases where telegraph and tele-
phone wires cross electric light wires they
must be suspended and maintained not less than
four A feet apart and in every way to conform
with the rules and regulations Of the National
Board of Fire Underwriters, and no wires will
be strung or permitted that are less than twenty
I'D feet above the pavement and not less than
twenty-five Isl feet at all street and railroad
crossings and intersections, and the upper space
or top crossarm or extension arm on the top of
telegraph and telephone poles of said Company
to be reserved for the City's use, as hereinafter
provided, and head guys or stay wires must be
attached to the poles when it is necessary for
proper maintenance and safety, and guards
shall be erected and maintained at such places
as shall be directed, and no trees are to be cut
or multilated, without the consent of the
owners thereof.
Section 3. That all work herein authorized
shall be done under the direction and to the
satisfaction OF the Fire Committee and Street
Committee of said City, and the said Company
be at all times subject to all the ordinances of
the City of Woodbury., and before attempting
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wires IN, along. over, across and through the
streets, highways and alleys of said City, the
said Company shall always before doing any
work IN erecting and placing additional poles
and wires, make application in writing accom-
panied by plan showing the location thereof,
the number of wires the location of the poles
located within the limits of said City, and the
method and character of construction, and will
not proceed with this work until duly authorized
by the Council of the City of Woodbury., who
snail appoint an Inspector to supervise the
work at a per diem OF Two (2) dollars, and said
Company shall pay the expense thereof and the
said Company shall be at all times subject 10 all
the ordinances of the City of Woodbury. in any
manner relating to telegraph or telephone poles
and wires now in force which may hereafter
be passed, and said Council of the City of Wood
bury shall have power to compel the said Com
paly to remove all poles and wires from said
streets, highways and alleys at any time here
after and require the wires to be laid in under
ground conduts subject to all regulations and
restrictions the City may impose, and that
the said Company place suitable telephone in
StFAfBSltS III the mayors Once, residence OF
the Mayor, City Water Works, City Water
Works Office, City Council Chamber, Fire En-
CINE Houses, Residences Of the Chief of the
Fire Department, and fifteen (l5) Special Police
respectively. may be designated by the May
or from time to time, and to be used for local
purposes only in said City, and to connect its
wires herewith, so that I'll e City, may freely use
the same Tor any purposes, over any of the lines
of said Company at all times, free of expense
to said City. and the said Company shall arrange
that the above mentioned telephones shall be so
connected in the central office each with the
others that the said telephones can be used
at all times during the night. as well as day, and
an extension bell be provided: and further, that
upon each and every pole now erected or that
may hereafter be erected, the City of Woodbury.
shall have the right of using the top space for
such cross beams or extension arms and string
ing such wires may be deemed necessary by
the Council of the City of Woodbury.; and said
Company shall maintain the fire alarm system
OF said City, and make the proper extension
thereofand said City expressly reserves the right
to use the poles of said Company, and conduits
that may be constructed, and that the City of
woodbury. shall have the right to use, free of
cost to the City, such poles erected or eonduts
constructed, or that may be erected or construct
ed, Tor wire or wires of any Fire Alarm or Poi
Ice Telegram System now in which may
hereafter be adopted or used by the said City OF
Woodbury.. and that the said Company shall
construct and reconstruct and furnish all mater
lals and keep all OF the said wires for Police and
Fire systems in reuair, free of cost under the
direction and to the satisfaction of the Fire
Committee of the said City of Woodbury..
Section 4: That the said Company shall, an
nually on the first day OF January, pay into the
City Treasury, through the City Clerk. for the
use OF the City Of Woodbury., the sum Of one ISL
dollar per pole for each and every pole already
erected within the City limits or that may here
after be erected or used by said Company; for
the first 81 years Of the term OF this ordinance;
and at the end and expiration Of the first five {5)
years they shall pay the sum Of two S2) dollars
per pole each and every year thereafter, an
nually,. from and after the date of the accept
ance OF this ordinance by said Company on
telegram tplpDlOnp
already located and that may hereafter be To-
Gated within the City of Woodbury.. The num-
Der OF poles on which payment shall be made
shall be estimated and determined by plan
prepared and furnished by said Company. show
ing the location OF each and every POLE and
any poles belonging TO any other Company on
which said Company shall have their wires at
taehed, within the limits of the City OF Wood
bury on the day above mentioned. and the cor