Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-05-23
Ordinance No. so.

An Ordinance establishing police supervision
| over the maintenance and erection of tele-
graph, telephone and electric light poles and
wires thereon 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 10 ordained and enacted by the BURGESS and
Tol0n Council of the Borough Of Emporium
and it is hereby ordained and enacted by the
authority Of the same.
Section 1. 1t shall be the duty of the Town
Council of Emporium Borough to hereafter ex-
ercise proper police supervision over 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 2. 1t shall be the duty of said Town
Council of said Borough during the month o f
June 1907, and each year thereafter, to appoint
one or more persons in said Borough whose duty
it shall be 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 as aforesaid; salary of said in
pector to be fixed by said Council and their
work to be done under the direction of said
Council.
Section 8. 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 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 as set forth in Section /.
Section 4. 1t shall be the duty Of the Town
Council between June 1st and 18th, 1907 and each
year thereafter, to collect annual license tax
in support of the police supervision ms set forth
in sections l, 2 and of this ordinance, from all
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 3, That all telegraph, telephone and
electric light poles now erected or hereafter to be
erected in the Borough of Emporium which
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
tals shall be legibly marked with oil paint upon
the poles sodesgnated 1t shall be the duty of all
such owner or owners on or before the first day
ofJune 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-
ed to be maintained thereby, to be paid to the
Borough Treasurer for the use of said Borough.
Sectton6. 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 Or poles
within the limits of said Borough, shall be SUBJ
Ject to 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 Zine mileage) so
erected and maintained upon such poles 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
tain said wires, specifying the computed mile 'ge
ofthe same;and the said Burgess shall issue such
license for the period of one year from the first
day of June of each and every year, to such COM
panies, corporations individuals applying for
such license under this Section
Section7 That any person. company or cor
poration falling refusing to Ia Ike out the license
or to pay the license tax required by this ordl-
nance shall pay fine of Fifty Dollars for each
and every pole or mile of wires, either or both,
liable for license tax, which are 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 q 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 hereinbetore provided for shall be subjected to
fine of Five Dollars for each and every offense,
to be recovered as like penalties now recov-
cred by law.
parts of ordinances inconsistent hereto
Enacted into an ordinance this 1st day ofApril,
A. D., 1907.
President of the Council.
r. c. MOORE, Borough Secretary.
Approved 9Th day of May, A. d. 1907
w. H. HOWARD, Chief Burgess.