[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of
Clifton Heights by Ord. No. 86 (Ch. 13, Part 4, of the 1988 Code of Ordinances). Amendments
noted where applicable.]
It shall be the duty of the Highway Committee to cause a thorough
inspection to be made at least once in every year of all telegraph,
telephone, electric light and trolley poles erected within the Borough
limits, and if any pole shall be found defective or dangerous from
any cause, they shall notify the owner of such pole, who shall forthwith
replace the same with a sound pole, and if the said owner neglects
or refuses to replace such defective pole within 48 hours after receiving
such notification, he or they shall be liable to a fine of $5 for
each and every day during which said neglect or refusal shall continue,
to be collected as debts of like amount are now by law recoverable.
[Amended in 1962 by Ord.
No. 399; 1963 by Ord. No. 410; 8-15-1988 by Ord. No. 682]
All telegraph, utility and similar poles now erected or hereafter
to be erected in the Borough of Clifton Heights shall be designated
by the names or initials of the owner of such poles, and each of such
poles shall be marked legibly in oil paint with a distinctive number,
together with the names or initials of such owner. It shall be the
duty of every such owner or owners, on or before the first Monday
of April 1896 and annually thereafter on the first Monday of January
in each year, to make application to the Secretary of Council for
a license for the ensuing year to maintain the poles theretofore erected
and to specify the poles so to be maintained by their designation,
as provided for in this section, and the Secretary of Council shall
issue a license to such applicant, which license shall authorize the
maintenance of the poles designated in the application only, for the
period of one year from the first day of January of the year for which
the said application is made and no longer, and the charge for issuing
such license shall be as established from time to time by the Borough
Council for each and every pole authorized to be maintained thereby.
The said license fee shall be paid to the Secretary of the Borough
for the use of the said Borough.
[Amended in 1962 by Ord.
No. 399; 1963 by Ord. No. 410; 8-15-1988 by Ord. No. 682]
No telegraph, utility or similar pole or poles shall be erected
hereafter in the Borough of Clifton Heights unless a license therefor
shall be secured from the Secretary of the Borough. The license fee
for every such pole to be erected shall be as established from time
to time by the Borough Council, which fee shall be paid to the Borough
Secretary for the use of the Borough.
[Amended 2-21-1896 by Ord. No. 87; 8-15-1988 by Ord. No. 682; 9-19-1988 by Ord. No. 681]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision
of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay
a fine of not more than $600, plus costs, and, in default of payment
of said fine and costs, to a term of imprisonment not to exceed 30
days. Every day that a violation of this chapter continues shall constitute
a separate offense.
