Arizona republican., 1914-09-19
ORDINANCE NO. 9

N THE DIGGING IN, ON, OR THE LAYING OR PLACING OF POLES. TRACKS, AND OTHER OBSTACLES IN, ON, OR UPON, UNDER, OVER ANY OF THE PUBLIC STREETS ALLEYS. PARKS, AND OTHER PUBLIC PLACES OF THE CITY OF PHOENIX, WITHOUT FIRST OB- TANNING A PERMIT THEREFOR.
 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COM MISSION OF THE CITY OF PHOE- NIX AS FOLLOWS:
 Sec. l. It shall be unlawful for any person, corporation or associa- tion, or their officers, agents or en- ployes, to dig, excavate, alter, ob- struct or change, or to cause any digging, excavation, alteration, ob- structiOn or change to be done or made in, over, under, along, across or upon any of the streets, alleys. parks or other public grounds or places within the corporate limits of the city of Phoenix, or to plant, lay, place, set, build, construct, remove, alter or change any trees, sidewalks, eS, wires, poles, or conduits, telegraph lines, wires, poles or conduits, cleo tric power or electric light line wires, poles, or conduits, water mains, hy- drants or pipes, sewer mains, man. holes or pipes, gas mains, pipes or conduits, steam, electric or other railways, railway tracks, lines, ties or rails, switches or side tracks. bridges, fumes, culverts, drains or ditches, or any other class or kind of work, ma terial, structure or construction, in, upon, over, or under such streets, parks, alleys and public grounds, without first obtaining written per mission so to do from the city man. ager.
 Sec 2. The City Manager may re- quire any application for permission to do or perform any one or more of the acts or things enumerated in sec ton l of this ordinance, to furnish a map or diagram showing the place, character and extent of the proposed do or perform the same whenever in his opinion the best interests of the public would be served by such re- fusal, and the said City Manager may, in his discretion, grant permission to do or perform any such acts or things in, upon, over, or under, the streets, alleys, parks, public grounds and places, except such as may be prohibited by law or ordinance, when ever in his opinion the best interest of the public will be served thereby, and may prescribe such reasonable conditions thereto as he may from time to time determine And as a permission, the City Manager may require of such applicant security in such form and amount as the City Manager may determine, conditioned that the contemplated work shall be done and performed within such req conable time as the said City Man ager may prescribe, and that the ap- plicant shall repair, and place and maintain in good condition and state of repair, and to the satisfaction of the City Manager, the streets, alleys, sidewalks, parks or other public grounds or places, or such portions thereof as may be dug, excavated, al tered or change by the doing or performance of said proposed work, and shall hold and keep the city of Phoenix harmless from or by reason of any act or thing done or per formed by such applicant under said permission.
 Section 3. Each person. firm, asso- citation or corporation violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be guilty of msdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be pun ished by a fine of not more than Two Hundred (s200O0) Dollars. or by imprisonment in the city jail for a term of not more than two hundred
 (2OO) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment
 Section 4. Whereas, an urgent ne cessity exists for the immediate pas sage of this ordinance for the pre- servatiOn of the peace. health and safety of the city, and the preserving to the citizens of the City of Phoenix of their full rights. in and to the streets, alleys, sidewalks, public grounds and parks of the city, and for the proper carrying on of the city government, an emergency IS hereby declared to exist, and this or dinance is exempted from the refer endum provisions of the city charter and shall be in full force and effect on and after it's passage by the Com . mission and approval by the Mayor, and shall be published as required by the city charter.
 Passed by the Commission of the City of Phoenix, this 18th day or September, 1914.
 Approved this twelfth day of Sep
 tember, 1914.
 GEO. U. YOUNG. Mayor Attest: FRANK THOMAS,
 Clerk.