No person shall erect, maintain or operate,
or cause to be erected, maintained or operated, either inside or outside
of any building in this City, any wire or apparatus for the transmission
of electrical currents except in accordance with the rules and requirements
of the National Board of Fire Underwriters for the installation of
wiring and apparatus, except as the same are modified or changed by
the provisions of this article.
A.
Every person, company or corporation which operates
in this City any system for the transmission of electrical current
shall have on file in its office maps of the various sections of the
City on which shall be plainly shown all poles, wires and cables erected,
maintained or operated by such person, company or corporation, designating
on said map which wires are used for alternating and which for direct
currents. Such person, company or corporation, when any new pole is
erected or new wire or cable is installed or any pole, wire or cable
is changed or abandoned by it, shall immediately designate the same
upon the maps of the system thereby affected. All dead wires shall
be immediately removed by the owner thereof.
B.
Upon written request by the Common Council or any
duly appointed official designated by the Common Council, any such
person, company or corporation operating a system for the transmission
of electrical current shall immediately supply a copy of any map required.
There shall be no charge made to the City for copies of such requested
maps.
A.
Every person, company or corporation operating any
system of electric light, heat or power in this City shall, when requested
to do so by the Chief of the Port Jervis Fire Department, cut off
the current from all or such part of said system as the said Fire
Chief may designate, but said Fire Chief shall not order such cutoff
except in case of fire, danger to life or accident.
B.
Upon the severing of wires as a result of fire or
other emergency, electrical service shall not be reconnected until
an inspection has been made by the duly appointed Electrical Inspector
for the City of Port Jervis and a certificate of compliance or cut-in
order has been issued by said Inspector.
No person shall erect, maintain or operate,
or cause to be erected, maintained or operated, any electrical wire
or cable across any public street, square or roadway in this City
within 18 feet from the ground nor, without the permission of the
owner, across the entrance to any alley, driveway or lane opening
upon any public street, square or place within said distance from
the ground.
No person shall fell any tree by the fall of
which any wire erected or maintained in any public street, square
or place shall be liable to injury without first obtaining authorization
from the Director of Public Works.
Space shall be reserved, for use by the City,
on any pole erected in any public street, square or place in the City
and used to support electric wires. The location on poles of City-owned
wires and equipment shall be as agreed upon between the owner(s) of
the respective pole(s) and the authorized City official.
All electric wires of a higher potentiality
than 600 volts for furnishing light, heat or power in this City, when
conducted into any building, shall be fitted with suitable appliances
to cut off the current on the outside of the building; and no wire
of such system shall run approximately parallel to the outside wall
of any building for more than five feet when within six feet of such
wall.
It shall be illegal for any person or persons
to fasten, in any manner, any sign, directional sign or banner on
any pole erected in any public street, square or place in this City.
