The Tupelo journal., 1916-12-15
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Sec. z. 1t shall be the duty of the
City Electrician to so direct the placing
of poles and wires in the streets, alleys
and public places of the city that the
same shall cause as little obstruction
as possible either to public travel on
such thoroughfares or to the private
use and enjoyment of adjacent prop
shall have authority. to compel the
removal of unsafe or superfluous poles.
Sec. 8. Any person or company
owning and using any such poles who
shall fail or refuse. after live days no.
tice from the City Electrician, to re-
move any pole or poles deemed by him
unsuitable. unsafe OF improperly To-
Gated, or the location of which he shall
require to be chanfed, shall. upon con-
~viction, be fined not less than five nor
more than twenty dollars. And the
erection or use of any poles rejected or
condemned by the City Electrician
shall subject the offender, upon con-
v%iction. to a like penalty.
Sec. 9, The City Electrician shall
cause all wires, except telephone wires.
that have not been used for thirty
days, and which are known as dead
wires, to be removed at once at the
expense IF the owners of such wires.
All dead wires of telephone companies
shall be detached from the buildings
with which they hove been connected.
Sect. 10. On any pole of any cleo
trio light, power, street railway, tele-
phone or telegraph company used
jointly by two or more companies. each
company shall be allotted a special
zone, and shall confine it's wires to that
zone. Spaces shall be measured from
the tops of poles downwards, and the
upmost zone on every pole shall at all
times be reserved for the free use of
the city in stringing its fire alarm or
police telegraph wires.
Sec. IL. The City Electrician shall
keep a full and complete daily record
of all work done. permits and license
issued, examinations made, and other
official work performed, as required
by this ordinance, and shall make a
report thereof to the council once each
month.
Sec. IL. Whenever builders or per-
sons engaged in repairing, painting,
etc.. find it necessary to remove wires
from buildings in prosecuting their
work, the owner of such building, or
the contractor engaged thereon, shall
serve the City Electrician with written
notice rwenry-four hours before such
contemplated work is begun, and said
City Electrician shall have authority in
his discretion to direct the owners of
such wires to remove the same.
Sec. Is. Any person, firm or corpor-
alton who shall fail to correct any de-
feet or defects in his work, after hav.
ing been duly notified for ten days by
the City Electrician, shall not receive
any further permit until such defect or
defects are corrected; and any case in
which any person shall continue to or
persistently violate the ordinance of
the city in regard to electrical affairs,
or the orders of the City Electrician
touching the same. the license of such
person shall be forfeited.
Sec. Ia. In any case of failure to
comply with this ordinance, the City
Electrician shall have authority, after
due notice, to cut out lights or current
in any locality concerned and enforce
discontinuance of the same until said
requirements are complied with.
sect. Is. ANY person, firm or COM
pany who shall violate any of the pro-
visions of this chapter for which no
specific penalty has been provided or
shall fail. neglect or refuse to comply
with any order of the City Electrician
given in pursuance of and by the au-
thority of this ordinance and the rules
embraced therein, shall, upon convic-
ton, be fined not less than one dollar
nor more than one hundred dollars for
each o~ffense. or confined in the city
prison or worked upon the streets of
the city not exceeding thirty days,
either or all, in the discretion of the
recorder.
Sec. 16 That for reasons satisfac-
tory to the Mayor and Board of Alder
MIN of said city, the above ordinance
shall go into full force and effect from
and after January 1st, A. D 1917.
The above ordinance was reduced to
writing prior to being voted upon. was
read OYER and considered by sections at
a regular public meeting of the Mayor
and Board of Aldermen held at the
Mayors office in the City of 1upelo,
Miss. on the 9th day of December. A.
d 1915, and the same was voted on
by sections by a yea and day vote.
Each alderman present voting yea
thereon There being present and
voting the following aldermen: F. c..
McGaughy, ID. S. Ballard. S P. Clay
ton and c r. Strain, E. R. Wilson
being absent.
D. w. Robins, Mayor.
C. E. Goodlett, Clerk.