Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-05-16
Ordinance no. SO.

An Ordinance establishing police supervision
! over the maintenance and erection of tele-
| graph telephone and electric light poles and
wires thereou in the Borough Of Emporium, pro-
! viding for the inspection and other supervision
| thereof; for the expense of such supervision the
| granting of annual license to all persons, COM
| panies and corporations maintaining telegraph,
| telephone and electric light poles and wires
| thereon within the limits ofthe Borough of En-
| porium, and providing for an annual license fee
| to be collected from all persons companies and
| corporations maintaining such poles and wires
| within said Borough, and providing penalties
for the violation thereof
Be it ordained and enacted By the Burgess and
To,on Council of the Borough Of Emporium,
and ii is hereby ordained and enacted by the
authority of the same
Section I. 1t shall be the duty of the Town
Council of Emporium Borough to hereafter ex-
ercise proper police supervision all electric
light, telephone and telegraph poles and wires
thereon within the limits of the said Emporium
Borough and the expense of so doing shall be
paid out of the general fund of said Borough
Treasury.
Section Q. 1t shall.b the duty of said Town
Council of said Borough during the month of
June 1907, and each year thereafter, to appoint
one more persons in said Borough whose duty
it shall to inspect all the telephone telegraph
and electric light poles in Emporium Borough
and the wires thereon, at least twice each year
and as many more times as the Council shall
deem it necessary; said inspector to report con-
dition of said poles and wires to said Council
after inspection aforesaid salary of said in
spector to be fixed by said Council and their
work to be done under the direction of said
Council
Section g. 1t shall be the duty of the Town
Council hereafter at any and all times to take
such steps as they may deem necessary to exer-
else proper police supervision over all the poles
and wires erected and maintained in said
Borough as aforesaid and all expenses so incur
red to be paid out of the general fund of the
Borough Treasury set forth in Section 1.
Section T. 1t shall be the duty of the Town
Council between June 1st and 18th, 1907 and each
year thereafter, to collect an annual license tax
in support of the police supervision as set forth
| ordinance. from
persons, companies or corporations now main
tanning or hereafter erecting and maintaining
electric light, telegraph or telephone poles within
the limits of Emporium Borough as hereinafter
set forth.
Section 5, That all telegraph, telephone and
electric light poles erected or hereafter to be
erected in the Borough of Emporium which are
or shall be owned by any corporation, company
or individual shall be designated by the names
or initials of such owners, and each pole shall
have distinctive number, which name or I'M
tlals shall be legibly marked with oil paint upon
the poles so designated 1t shall be the duty of all
such owner owners before the first day
of June next, and annually thereafter, to make
application to the Burgess for license to main
tain the poles heretofore erected for the ensuing
year, specifying the poles to be maintained by
their proper designation as provided for in this
Section And the Burgess shall, thereupon, issue
license to such applicants, of the poles desig-
mated in such application for the term of one year
only, to be computed from the first day of June,
for each and every year, and no longer. And the
license tax for issuing such license shall be the
sum of so cents for each and every pole authoriz-
eu 10 DE nalntalned tnereDy 10 ne palu 10 the
Borough Treasurer for the use of said Borough
Section g. That all wires owned by any tele
phone, telegraph or electric light company, cor
poration or Individual which are erected or here
after shall be erected upon any pole poles
within the limits of said Borough, shall be sub
ject to a license tax, and each corporation, COM
pany or individual maintaining such wires shall
be required to pay annually license fee of $500
for each and every mile of wires Qine mileage) so
erected and maintained upon such poles or pole
and payable to the Borough Treasurer for the
use of said Borough And on the first day OF
June next, and annually thereafter, shall make
application to the Burgess for license to main
tain said wires, specifying the computed mileage
oftbe sameand the said Burgess shall issue such
day of June of each and every year, to such COM
panies, corporations or individuals applying for
such license under this Section.
Section 2. That any person, company or cor
poration failing or refusing totake out the license
or to pay the license tax required by this ordi-
nance shall pay fine of Fifty Dollars for each
and every pole or mile of wires, either or both,
liable for alcense tax, which maintained
contrary to the provisions :of this ordinance, in
addition to the immediate forfeiture of his or
their license, if the same have heretofore been
issued; said penalty to be sued for and recovered
in manner that debts for penalties of like
amounts are by law recovered
Section s.. That any person, company or cor
poration who shall violate any of the provisions
of any of the sections of this ordinance Except
as hereinbefore provided for) shall be subjected to
fine of Five Dollars for each and every offense,
to be recovered as like penalties are now recov-
cred by law.
This ordnance repeating any ordinance or
parts of ordinar ces inconsistent hereto.
Enacted into an ordinance this 1st day ofApril,
A d., 1907.
C.J. GoODNoUGH,
President of the Council.
R. G. MOORE, Borough Secretary.
Approved 9th day of May, A. D., 1907.
w. II. HOWARD, Chief Burgess