(1)
Definitions. In this Section the following definitions
apply:
(a)
Sound Reproduction Licensee. Any person to whom a
special ordinance grants the privilege of using or maintaining underground wires
for connecting buildings occupied by the customer of such person with the
central station of such person and for transmitting music and advertising to
such customers by a system of sound reproduction;
(b)
Underground
Wires. Any telegraph lines, telephone lines, electric light and power wires,
electrical conductors, ducts, conduits, cables or pneumatic tubes laid or
constructed beneath the streets of the City;
(2)
General
Provisions.
[374] (a) No
person shall construct, use or maintain any underground wire except as
authorized by special ordinance and in accordance with the provisions of this
Section.
(b) No person shall construct any underground wire unless he
has obtained a permit provided in § 11-204.
(c) The construction
and maintenance of underground wire shall be under the supervision of the
Department of Public Property, which shall have free access to them for
inspection or making connections for the use by the City.
(d) Upon 30
days notice from the Department of Public Property, any person to whom the
privilege of constructing any underground wire has been granted shall be
required to furnish to the City for its free use, one tube, duct or chamber of a
conduit, or the equivalent in good working wires.
(e) Failure to comply
with § 9-303(3)(d) within 30 days of the time specified shall result in
forfeiture of the privilege of constructing or maintaining underground
wires.
[375] (f) No
privilege to construct, maintain or use underground wires shall be assigned,
transferred to or participated in by any one other than the person to whom the
privilege is
granted.
[376] (g) Any
person to whom the privilege of constructing or maintaining underground wires
has been granted shall be liable for injury or damages to gas mains, water
mains, pipes or sewers caused by the opening of street or the construction or
maintenance of the underground wires.
(h) Any privilege granted by
special ordinance to construct, maintain or use underground wires shall include
the authority to use, occupy or operate the underground wires of the Bell
Telephone Company of Pennsylvania or any other corporation lawfully using
electrical current for telegraph, telephone or signal purposes, upon the terms
and conditions agreed upon between the holder of such privilege and the Bell
Telephone Company of Pennsylvania or such other
corporation.
[377] (i) The
violation of any provision of this Section, or of the special ordinance granting
the privilege to act under this Section, shall be remedied within 10 days after
written notice of the violation or such longer time as the Department of Public
Property provides. The failure to comply with the notice within the time
specified shall result in forfeiture of the privileges granted, and the
Department of Public Property shall disconnect the underground wires from the
buildings where attached or remove them from the streets, at the expense of the
person holding the privilege.
(3)
Sound Reproduction
Licensee.
(a) No sound reproduction licensee shall convey or
disseminate any news, data or information with respect to horse or dog racing or
gambling, or any similar matter or event, and the privileges granted to a sound
reproduction licensee shall not include the right to furnish services to
ballrooms, dance halls or private functions conducted in hotels, banquet halls
or theaters.
(b) The privileges granted by special ordinance to any
sound reproduction licensee shall at all times be exercised and maintained
subject to the regulations of the Department of Public Property, and may at any
time be revoked by special ordinance.