The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-13
LEGAL.
published in The Topeka State journal,
March 13 1911
HOUSE BILL NO, $50.


AN ACT relating to the stringing. of wires
along and across highways and ut rail
road crossings. giving the Public Utilities
Commission certain power thereover. and
repeating sections S3:s. $3.50 and S451 of
the General Statutes of 1915, aud all acts
and parts of acts in conflict herewith
Be 1t enacted by the Legislature of the
State of Kansas:
Section 1. All public utilities owning or
telegraph telephone messages or for
the transmission of electricity upon, along,
or across the streets. highways or public
places in this state are required to so use.
string and maintain such wires as to avoid
the wires of other utilities and to avoid
unreasonable injury to and interference
with the wires of other utilities, and the
Public Utilities Commission is given the
power. and it is hereby made its duty, to
prescribe reasonable rules and regulations
with respect to the stringing and maintain
ing of wires in all cases where there is dan
ger possibility of unreasonable inter-
ference with or damage to the wires or
utility and with respect to the support,
maintenance, repair and reconstruction
thereof, which rules shall be furnished to
any interested person upon application TO
the Public Utilities Commission, and the
power. and it is hereby made its duty to
prescribe reasonable rules and regulations
with respect to the stringing of wires, cleo
trio otherwise, which cross over or under
the tracks of any railroad company and
with respect to the support. maintenance,
person upon application; but in no case
shall the height of any wires which cross
above the tracks of a railway company be
less than twenty-five feet from the top of
the rails, except trolley and feed wires of
electric railroads, which wires shall be not
less than twenty two feet above the tops of
the rails.
the Public Utilities Commission by any
interested parties that any such wires are
not properly placed or not securely sup.
ported, or that the rules and regulations of
hp Utilities Commission
spect thereto are being violated, it shall be
the duty of the Public Utilities Commission
to cause an investigation of such complaint
to be made, and if it finds the complaint
to be true, to make the necessary orders
for the placing of such wires and the sup
Sec. 3 Sections s3a. $3.50 and s451 of the
General Statutes of 1915, and all acts and
parts of acts in conflict herewith, are here
Sec. A. This act shall take effect and be
in force on and after its publication in the
! / hereby certify that the above Bill origi-
nated in the House, and passed that body
House concnrred in Senate Amendment
-'i"' u A. M. KEENE,
Speaker of the House.
CLARENCE W. MILLER,
| Chief Clerk of the House.
/ Passed the Senate March ). 1917,
| w. Y. MORGAN.
/ President of the Senate.
L. d. GEORGE,
Secretary of the Senate.
Approved March Z, 1917.
ARTHUR CAPPER, Governor.
State of Kansas
Office Of Secretary of State.
| l. J. T. BOTKIN. Secretary of State Of
| the State of Kansas, do hereby certify
| that the above and foregoing is correct
| copy of the original enrolled bih now on
! file in my office.
! IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF. l have
hereunto subscribed my name
| and affixed my official seal,
| ISeaLl this 9th day of March,
1911.
J. T. BOTKIN,
Secretary of State.
| BY f. A. CORNELL,