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Telegraph, Telephone and Electric Light Lines

CONTROL AND USE OF STREETS.

An Ordinance to Regulate and Control the Use of Streets, Public Places and Buildings in Bay City by Corporations, Companies or Individuals Engaged in Using, Operating or Maintaining Telegraph, Telephone or Electric Light Lines.

It is hereby ordained by the Common Council of Bay City:

*Section 1. Before any corporation, company or individual owning or operating any lines of wire known as telegraph or telephone lines and used or to be used for purposes of communication and correspondence, and before any corporation, company or individual owning any line of wire used or to be used to convey electric currents for illuminating, heat and power purposes, shall enter upon or use any of the streets, lanes, alleys or other public grounds of the city for the purposes aforesaid, an ordinance shall be passed by the city council granting to such corporation, company or individual the

*Amended December 28, 1908.

right to erect, operate and maintain such lines of wires within the city limits upon such streets, avenues, alleys, or other public grounds, as the said council may designate (from time to time), and under the rules and regulations herein prescribed, and subject to all regulations and restrictions that said council may at any future time see fit to impose.

Sec. 2. That whenever, after the passage of the necessary ordinance granting the right to erect and maintain such lines as provided in section 1 of this ordinance, any such corporation, company or individual shall desire to use any particular street, lane or alley, or other public ground, for the purposes aforesaid, written application shall be made to the common council, stating the route proposed and giving the names of such streets or alleys, etc., desired to be used, with the position and general plan for the erection of poles or other supports of such wires or lines. Whenever the common council, as provided in section 1 of this ordinance, shall have designated any avenues, streets, alleys or other public grounds of the city, upon which said corporation, company or individual shall have been given the right to erect, operate and maintain such lines of wire, and whenever the common council, under the provisions of this section, shall grant to said corporation, company or individual the right to erect, operate and maintain such lines of wire upon either avenues, streets, lanes, alleys or other public grounds of the city, said corporation, company or individual shall notify the mayor in writ ing of the permission so granted. Upon receiving such notification in writing, the mayor shall at once call a meeting of the city engineer, superintendent of the water works, chief of the fire department, and the superintendent of electric lighting, who together shall constitute a board, to be known as the board of electric control, of which the mayor shall be chairman.

The said board shall, if they deem it necessary,

proceed to view the premises, and shall give such directions, for the erection of poles, wires and conductors, and the excavation of the streets or other public places for the laying of mains, wires and conductors, as by this ordinance and other ordinances of Bay City, relating thereto, provided for, in such manner as they may deem best to secure the safety and protection of the interests of the public, or of any other lines, wires and conductors owned and operated in the city. The said board, under the hand of its chairman or chairman pro tem, as the case may be, shall give written direction for the execution of said work, and may require the same to be done in accordance with any reasonable rules and regulations that may be adopted by said board from time to time, and no work shall be done by said grantee or its assigns, under the provisions of this ordinance, without the written permission of said board and under its directions and instruc tions.

Sec. 3. That no line or lines erected as herein provided shall be so placed as to injure the support or working of the lines of any other company or individual previously erected, or in any way to injure, obstruct or inconvenience any public or private driveway, passage-way, street, lane, alley, park, public square or shade trees, or so as to injure or obstruct any sewer, water or gas pipe.

*Sec. 4. Unless otherwise directed by the common council, such poles or supports shall be placed between the curb line and the sidewalk and within one foot of the curb line, and in no case shall such wires approach nearer than twenty-two feet to the surface of the street, lane, alley, passage or driveway or public ground over which such line or lines may pass.

*Sec. 5. The conductors or wires used to convey the electric current for illuminating, heat and power purposes shall be placed and kept separate

*Amended December 28, 1908.

and distinct from all other wires or conductors, and wherever the said electric light wires or conductors shall cross or intersect with any other conductor or wire they shall run a distance therefrom of at least one foot, nor shall the said electric light wires approach nearer to any other conductor or wires than the aforesaid distance in any relative position what

ever.

*Sec. 6. All such electric light wires or conductors, when affixed to any building or dwelling for the purpose of entering therein, shall be attached to carefully insulated supports of glass, and the said wires from the point where they enter the building shall be carefully insulated with gutta percha or some other non-conducting substance. No such electric light wires or conductors shall be affixed, attached to or allowed to touch any building, except for entering therein for illumination, and in the manner above described.

Sec. 7. This ordinance, on and after its passage, shall be understood to apply to all such corporations, companies and individuals as are now in operation in the city, so far as the same relates to any extension or alteration of old, or the erection of additional or new lines of wire. Adopted October 31, 1881.

An Ordinance to Regulate and Control the use of Streets, Public Places and Buildings in West Bay City by Corporations, Companies or Individuals Engaged in Using, Operating or Maintaining Telegraphic, Telephonic or Electric Lines.

Be it Ordained by the City of West Bay City:

Section 1. Before any corporation, company or individual owning or operating any lines of wire known as telegraph or telephone lines and used or to be used for purposes of communication or cor

*Amended December 28, 1908.

respondence, and before any corporation, company or individual owning any line of wires used or to be used to convey electric currents for illuminating purposes or as a motor power, shall enter upon or use any of the streets, lanes, alleys or other public grounds of the city for the purposes aforesaid, an ordinance shall be passed by the city council granting such corporation, company or individual the right to erect, operate and maintain such lines of wires within the city limits upon such streets, avenues, alleys or other public grounds as the said council may designate, from time to time, and under rules and regulations herein prescribed, and subject to all regulations and restrictions that said council may at any future time see fit to impose.

Sec. 2. That whenever, after the passage of the necessary ordinance granting the right to erect and maintain such lines as provided in section one of this ordinance, any such corporation, company or individual shall desire to use any particular street, lane or alley or other public ground for any of the purposes aforesaid, written application shall be made to the common council stating the route proposed and giving the names of such streets, lanes or alleys, etc., desired to be so used with the position and general plan for the erection of poles or other supports of such wires or lines.

Sec. 3. Whenever the common council shall have designated any street, lane, or other public place, as provided in section one of this ordinance, upon which any company desires to erect or maintain poles, wires or conductors, or beneath the surface of which they desire to lay mains, wires or conductors, such company shall immediately notify the mayor and chief engineer of the fire department in writing, of the permission so granted. The mayor and said chief engineer shall thereupon view the premises and give such directions for erecting their poles, wires and conductors, etc., as is provided by the ordinances of West Bay City relating thereto, and in such manner as they may deem best