HomeMy WebLinkAbout4347 ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE of the City of Bremerton adopting a new Section TELEPHONE
AND TELEGRAPH MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION in the Bremerton
Municipal Code 17.24.14Sand repealing chapters 5.62 and 5.64.
THE CITY OF BREMERTON DOES HEREBY ORDAIN:
Section 1: New Section. Section 17.24.145, TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH
MAINTENANCE'AND OPERATION, is adopted to read as follows:
17.24.145 TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH MAINTENANCE AND
OPERATION.
(a) A telephone and telegraph business may use the streets, alleys, avenues, public
places and public grounds with its poles, wires, cables, underground conduits and all other
appliances and apparatus necessary for the operation and maintenance of such business;
such wires, cables and other appliances and conductors may be strung on poles or other
fixtures above ground, or at the option of the business may be laid underground in pipes or
conduits or otherwise protected, and such other apparatus may be used as may be necessary
or proper to operate and maintain the same; Providing, however, That whenever such wires,
cables and other appliances and conductors be laid underground in pipes or conduits or
otherwise protected, the telephone and telegraph business shall furnish the City one duct
in its main underground system, excluding pipe or other conduit dips connecting one pole
with another, or two pairs of wire in underground cable, free of charge to the City, to be
used for low tension police and fire alarm purposes, the business having the option as to
whether two pairs of wires shall be given or a duct in the underground system; Providing
further, however, That the City shall, in its use and maintenance of such fixtures, wires or
ducts, comply with the reasonable plans and rules of the business so that there may be a
minimum of danger of contact between its fixtures, wires or ducts and the fixtures, wires,
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cables or ducts of the said business, nor shall the wires of the City be unduly exposed to
foreign electrical current in excess of five thousand volts, and Providing further, That in case
of a rearrangement of said plant, the City will at its own expense, care for its own fixtures,
wires and construction.
(b) Where tree trimming is necessary in public streets or places for the proper
operation of the lines and conductors of the telephone and telegraph business, such
trimming shall be done by competent employees of the business upon application for and
the granting of a permit by the City Engineer or such other official as the City Engineer may
designate.
(c) Whenever it becomes necessary temporarily to rearrange, remove, lower or raise
the aerial cables or wires or other apparatus of the business to permit the passage of any
building, machinery or other object, the telephone and telegraph business will perform such
rearrangement on seven days' notice to its manager at Bremerton from the person or
persons desiring to move said building, machinery or other objects. Said notice shall bear
the approval of the City Engineer, or such other official as the City Engineer may designate,
shall detail the route of movement of the building, machinery or other objects, shall provide
that the costs incurred by the telephone and telegraph business in making such
rearrangement will be incurred by the person(s) giving said notice.
(d) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed in any way to prevent the City from
sewering, grading, planking, rocking, paving, repairing, altering or improving any of the
streets, alleys, avenues, thoroughfares, public highways or places within the City, in or upon
which the poles, wires or other conductors of the business shall be placed, and in the event
it becomes necessary that the poles, wires, cables or other apparatus of the business be
moved in order for the City to carry out such work or improvements, said business shall
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move its poles, wires, cables and other apparatus at its own expense within a reasonable
time after notice of such proposed work or improvements has been given to the business by
the City.
Section 2. Repeal. Chapters 5.62 and 5.64of the Bremerton Municipal Code are
hereby repealed in their entirety.
APPROVED by the City Council of the City of Bremerton this /~ day of
, 991.
~ PASSED by the City Council of the City of Bremerton this ~'~ day of
LYNN HORTON, Council President
APPROVED this \ day of ~~ ,1991. .
LOUIS MENTOR, Mayor
ATTEST:
KATHLEEN McCLUSKEY, City Clerk