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poles allowed.

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offices of the companies herein named and the premises of the users of the service furnished by any corporation, firm or person operating under this ordinance the necessary poles for distributing wires from the subways may be erected in any and all of the streets, (excepting in King street between Calhoun and Broad streets) under the direction and supervision of the Mayor, the committee on electric wires, the committee on streets and the city electrician.

SEC. 252. That upon the passage of any ordinance granting any company, corporation, firm or individual privileges under this ordinance or under any ordinance now in force relating to or regulating or requiring underground wires, electrical conductors, conduits, pipes or tubes, the said company, corporation, firm or individual shall, before exercising any privileges or requirements thereunBond be der, give a bond to be prepared and approved by the corporation counsel and the Mayor, and to be entered of record, in the sum of five thousand dollars, conditioned that they will properly relay and pave all openings made by them, such bond to be cancelled when such openings shall have been properly relaid and paved and accepted as such by the superintendent of streets. No permit shall be issued as aforesaid until this condition is complied with.

given.

Sept. 8, 1899.

Telephone, Telegraph Co's. to

maintain wires in

subways in certain streets.

SEC. 253. That from and after the 31st day of December, 1899, it shall be unlawful for any corporation, firm or person, now or hereafter conducting a telegraph, telephone or burglar alarm business, to erect any pole or poles, or to stretch, extend or run any of its wires along and through any of the streets of the City of Charleston within the area or areas in Section 257, of this ordinance, (and also set out in the diagram or plat hereto attached as part of this ordinance,) except as provided therein,

unless the same be run, stretched and maintained in and through subways or conduits laid under ground, and operated and maintained in accordance with the provisions of an ordinance entitled “An ordinance relating to the constructing of subways and underground wires for electrical purposes and regulating the same," ratified the 13th day of July, 1897: Provided, however, that defective poles, or poles destroyed by fire, storm or other casualty may be replaced and stand under this ordinance as the original pole to be so replaced would have stood.

SEC. 254. That on and immediately after the Time. 31st day of December, 1899, all such corporations, firms or persons, now, then and thereafter conducting such telegraph, telephone or burglar alarm business, shall, and before such date may construct and maintain, each for itself, or conjointly, should they so determine and agree, such conduits or subways including necessary man-holes and house connections in the territory and streets hereinafter referred to, as may be necessary to contain the wires used and to be used by them, or any or either of them, or their lessees, along and through the said streets or areas; such construction of the said conduits or subways and the placing of wires or cables therein to be fully completed on or before the 1st day of July, 1907.

Poles to be removed by July,

SEC. 255. That all poles or posts now standing or used, or which may be standing or used on the 1907. 1st day of July, 1907, in the streets or areas hereinafter described, shall be removed from said streets, and all wires suspended thereon taken down and removed on or before the 1st day of December, 1907, and poles shall be no longer maintained therein, except such distributing poles as are necessary and permitted and provided for by the ordinance hereinbefore referred to.

SEC. 256. That for a failure to comply with this Penalty.

Underground

streets.

License

for company going

fore

1907.

Ist July,

ordinance the person or persons in charge of the business or office of the said company or corporation, firm or persons, in the said City of Charleston, shall be summoned before the Recorder of the said city, and if found guilty shall be fined a sum not exceeding twenty-five dollars for each and every day of said default. But the imposition and collection of this fine shall not in any way authorize or sanction the further maintenance of such poles or in any way prevent the City Council from removing the same or causing them to be removed.

SEC. 257. That the area, streets or districts to be first affected by this ordinance shall be contained in the area south of and including Line street. That within this specified area no poles shall be erected or maintained and no wires placed upon or along the following streets, running in a northwardly or southwardly direction, to-wit: East Bay, Church, Meeting, King, Legare and Rutledge avenue. That poles may be erected and maintained and wires placed and kept upon and along all of the streets, avenues, lanes, alleys or courts in such specified area running in a general eastwardly and westwardly direction, saving in the following streets, in which said poles and wires shall not be erected, strung or maintained except in subways, to-wit: South Bay, Tradd, Broad, Wentworth and Calhoun

streets.

SEC. 258. That in the event that any telegraph, underground be telephone or burglar alarm business company shall prior to the first of July, 1907, build and construct underground conduits and operate the wires of their system or systems in the same throughout the area specified in Section 257, then the license for such company for the period of time from the completion by them of such subways until the first day of July, 1907, shall be at the rate of ten dollars per annum; should the said period of required completion be

hereafter extended beyond the first day of July, 1907, then and in that event the license for such company at that time operating its wires in an underground system throughout the above mentioned territory shall remain and continue at the rate of ten dollars per annum until the final date when all the telegraph, telephone and burglar alarm companies shall be forced to have their wires placed underground in the area specified.

HEALTH DEPARTMENT.

BOARD

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HEALTH-HEALTH

OFFICER-CITY

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DISPENSARY PHYSICIANS-BIRTHS

RIAGES PRIVIES AND VAULTS-LOW LOTS-
INTERMENTS AND CEMETERIES.

of

Board
Health; how ap-

stituted.

SEC. 259. The Board of Health of the City of Jan. 17, 1882. Charleston shall consist of three practicing physicians and eight citizens of the City of Charleston, pointed and conall of whom shall be appointed by the Mayor, and from whom he shall select a chairman; and which said board shall hold their office for the term of two years from the date of their appointment or until their successors are qualified.

clusively exercis

Health.

SEC. 260. The authority, duty and powers here- Mar. 30, 1875, §2. tofore imposed by any Ordinance for the purpose Duty and powers of preserving of preserving health or preventing disease, upon health to be exany officer or person, are hereby exclusively con- ed by Board of ferred upon and shall hereafter be exclusively exercised by the Board of Health, the members and officers thereof; and the powers of the said Board shall be construed to include the prevention of the sale, or offering for sale of, improper articles; the removal of any matter or thing in or upon the public streets, or places which shall be, in their opinion, detrimen

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Abating of nui

sances.

Ib., 3.

Το remove remedy anything on any lot building, which

may
public health.

tors.

tal to the public health, and generally the abating of all nuisances injurious to the public health.

SEC. 261. The Board of Health shall have full or power and authority to require the owner or occupant of any lot or building in the city to remove or endanger remedy anything on said lot or building, which, in the opinion of the Board, may endanger the public health; and on failure of the owner or occupant to remove or remedy the same, after notice, the Board shall have the same done at the expense of said owner or occupant, the said amount to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction, and the owner or occupant shall be further subject to a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars or imprisonment not exceeding ten days.

Ib., § 4.

SEC. 262. The Board of Health or Health OffiSanitary inspec- cer shall appoint four sanitary inspectors, whose districts and duties shall from time to time be prescribed by the Board, and whose salaries shall not exceed the sum of fifty dollars a month each. Among the other duties it shall be incumbent upon each of said inspectors to visit every lot in his district at least once a month, and to report to the Board of Health anything they may find which tends to endanger the pubilc health; and in course of such inspection to examine all privy vaults and carry out such instructions as may be given by the Board.

Ib., § 6.

Powers in re

excavations, &c.

SEC. 263. The Board of Health may order or cause any building, excavation, matter or thing, or

gard to buildings, the sewerage, drainage or ventilation thereof, which shall be regarded by the said Board as in a condition dangerous or detrimental to health, to be removed, suspended, altered, or otherwise abated, as said Board shall direct; and they may also order any substance, matter or thing left in any lot, building, street, alley, or other place, which said Board may regard as dangerous or detrimental to life or health,

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