The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-10-08

by permission or the Mayor and Board
of Aldermen, or such person or Com
mittee as they may appoint, and no
wires shall be less than Is feet from
the curb in heighth.
Section 4.
1t shall be unlawful for any person,
firm, or corporation to place or allow
to be placed, any advertising cards or
posters or any other light material
or any signs or advertising matter sus
pending by ropes or wires, on any
such poles within the city limits.
Section 5.
Whenever it shall become neces-
sary for any high potential and low
potential wires to cross each other
such cross wires shall be at dis
lance from each other of not less than
three feet. And no wires shall be
allowed over the City Fire Alarm wire
or Police telegraph wires. No low po-
tential wire shall be strung or main
tanned under high potential wire.
Section 6.
The insulation resistance on all cir
cults of all companies shall be main
tanned at a standard approved by the
rules of the National Board of Fire
Underwriters, printed copy of which
is filed with the City Clerk and made
part hereof for reference, being sec
tion A. page Sc, of National Electrical
Code, 1907.
Section Z.
The followink rules shall govern
outside work, all systems and voltage
wires:
(a) When service is discontinued
in building, and the wires are perma-
nently dead, the drop must be taken
down from the building to the pole.
(b) Wires must be spliced or
Joined so as to be mechanically and
electrically secure. The joints of in
sulated wires must then be soldered to
insure preservation, and covered with
an insulation equal to that on the con
ductors.
(c) Wires must, where they enter
buildings, have drip loops outside.
(d) Telegraph, telephone and sim
liar wires shall not be placed on the
same cross arm with electric light OF
power wires.
(e) All ground wires must have a
double insulation from the ground to
the top of the pole, and must be boxed
or piped from the ground for a dis
lance of seven feet.
(f) All trolley wires must be cap
able of being disconnected at the
power plant, or of being divided into
sections, so that, in case Of fire, Oh
the railway route, the current may be
| cut off from that particular section
and not interfere with the work Of the
firemen. And the same shall also
apply to feeders.
(g) Transformers must not be at
tached to the outside walls of any
buildings, unless separated therefron
by substantial supports.
(h) Where transformers are con
nected to high voltage circuits, either
transformers or secondary wires shall
be grounded.
| ID Where guy wires are used ant
they come anywhere near high ten
sion wire, such as electric light wires
street railway wires, etc, circuit
breakers must be used on these gu:
wires, one close up to the pole an,
the other out of reach of any one OF
the ground, or on pole or stub Il
where the guy wire is fastened Al
guy wires must be covered with
substantial wooden box at least eigh
feet in height perpendicular from tn
curb or street line, and such boxln
must be maintained in substantia
anu Hedt llldllHef.
Cd The practice of any electri
company, telegraph or telephone Goa
pany, or any one else, stringing wires
splitting lead of another company
strictly forbidden. Where other pole
split a high tension line, there mus
be a cross arm put on each pole an
the wires spaced sixteen inches frpl
Tie center of the pole each way.
(k) All brake functions of eorne
poles must be double armed, when ne
essary. Whenever moving poles tn;
have fire alarm on them the com?ar
: moving the same shall take the be
of care of the fire alarm wires and p'
the same in first class shape witho'
l. any charge to the city.
It ID All telephone drops must
r run with triple braided weather pro
J. wires, where they cross high tensit
= wires.
r I'M No wire Of any other kind tn
# has an electric current passing on
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