Sec. 46-146. - Construction rules generally.
The following rules shall govern outside work, all system and voltage wires:
(1) After service is discontinued in a building for 90 days, the drops must be taken down from the building to the pole.
(2) Wires must be spliced or joined so as to be mechanically and electrically secure. The joints of insulated wires must be soldered to insure preservation and covered with an insulation equal to that on the conductors.
(3) Wires must, where they enter buildings, have drip loops outside.
(4) Telegraph, telephone and similar wires shall not be placed on the same cross arms with electric light or power wires.
(5) All ground wires must be boxed or piped from the ground for a distance of seven feet.
(6) Transformers must not be attached to the outside wall of any building unless separated therefrom by substantial supports.
(7) When guy wires are used and come anywhere near high tension wires such as electric light wires, street railway wires, etc., circuit breakers or strain insulators must be used on these guy wires, one close up to the poles and the other out of reach of any one on the ground, or on pole or stub to where guy wire is fastened. All anchor guy wires must be covered with a substantial wooden box, for a distance of eight feet perpendicularly from the ground and such boxing must be maintained in a substantial and neat manner.
(8) The practice of any electric company, telephone or telegraph company or anyone else stringing wires splitting a lead of another company, is strictly forbidden. Where other poles split a high tension line, there must be a cross arm put on each pole and the wires spaced sixteen inches from the center of the pole each way.
(9) All brake junctions must be double armed. Whenever moving poles that have fire alarm wires on them the company moving same shall take the best care of the fire alarm wires and put the same in first class shape without any charge to the city.
(10) All telephone drops must be run with the triple braided weather proof wires or better wires where they cross high tension wires.
(11) No wire of any kind that has an electric circuit passing on it shall be allowed to be attached to gas pipes either inside or outside of buildings.
(12) Where wires are attached to buildings they must be fastened as to secure mechanical strength to guard against wires pulling off from the buildings. The practice of fastening brackets on to brick walls is not permitted except with suitable expansion bolts.
(13) In the event of any contingency not herein provided for, the rules and regulations of the National Electrical Code shall govern.
(Code 1989, § 23-50; Ord. No. 446, § 7, 3-9-1916)
