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The violation of any of the rules and regulations of the board shall operate ipso facto as a revocation of the permit held by the company or person guilty of such violation.

28. Whenever hereafter any company shall be permitted by this Board or its successors to erect posts or poles, or other fixtures bearing lamps or other devices, for the purpose of lighting by electricity the streets, avenues, highways, parks or public places of the city, the said permission shall be granted only subject to the following provisions, and the same is hereby expressly made a condition of said permits. At any time when, by action of the city authorities, the contract for lighting any such street or other public place shall be given to another company, the company erecting said lamp-posts shall, on tender of the first cost thereof, yield possession and ownership of the same to the said other company obtaining the new contract, except in cases where the company owning the lamp-posts prefers to remove them.

29. All broken and “dead” wires, and all wires, poles and fixtures not actually in use-subject to rule 15must be removed from the streets, avenues and highways of the city. When an old pole is taken down it must be removed from the streets the same day. New poles must not be brought upon any street more than two days in advance of their erection. Any pole that shall lie on any street more than two days shall be removed by the Bureau of Incumbrances of the Department of Public Works, at the expense of the party owning it.

30. On and after the first of January, 1889, no company shall do business of arc electric lighting in the city of New York without a certificate of the Board, granted on the recommendation and after inspection by the expert of the Board, to the effect that its lines comply with all the rules and regulations of the Board, and that its plant is in proper condition for the doing of its business. The force of the certificate to continue until changes are made, of which the Board must be notified and approve, or so long as the plant and conductors remain in the same condition as when inspected.

31. Every lineman must wear a badge in a conspicuous place, giving his number and the name of the company by whom he is employed.

32. All permits of the Board for overhead wires and fixtures are granted only pending the providing of underground accommodations in the neighborhood of the street or avenue for which the permit is granted.

33. Any member or officer of the Board, and every inspector employed by it, as well as every member of the police force of the city, shall be entitled to examine permits under which work of any kind is being done.

34. No permit shall be granted for the erection of any overhead structure nor for the renewing of any lines already existing in any street, avenue or highway in which underground accommodations for the service have been provided, or are being provided.

35. Every line, pole, fixture, etc. must be kept in thorough order, repair and conformity with these rules and specifications, upon penalty of forfeiture of all permits granted to the owner by this Board. But the general permit under which these repairs are to be made does not cover the erection in any street, avenue or highway of any new poles of other similar fixtures, and has absolutely no reference whatever to lines which have been ordered underground by the Board, and which the Mayor has been requested to remove. In the case of such lines, where notice has been given that underground accommodations have been provided, and the ninety days of notice required by law have elapsed, and the Mayor has been requested to remove the same, companies owning or operating such lines are not authorized to make any repairs or connections or to go upon the poles bearing such lines for any purpose whatever, except to remove the said lines of electrical conductors in conformity with the directions of the Board. Any deviation from this rule requires a resolution passed at the regular meeting of the Board, attested by the secretary.

36. Every company or person erecting poles, wires or fixtures must make and leave, at least once each week, at the office of the Board, such records of the fixtures, etc.,

which they are erecting, and of all of the same that they have in use, as are required by the engineer and the electrical expert of the board, and in such form as shall be prescribed by them.

37. The companies or persons owning or controlling poles in any street or avenue, erected under permits of this Board or the Board of Electrical Subways, shall allow the same to be used by other companies or persons operating conductors for similar electrical service when authorized so to do by the Board, on tender of proper compensation, to be determined by agreement between the parties interested. In default of such an agreement the amount of such compensation shall be determined by the board. This rule imports a contract on the part of each company or person owning or controlling the poles on any street or avenue, not only with the board, but also with each company or person who shall under its terms be qualified to demand the privileges it confers, to permit this joint use of poles. And in accepting any permit the applicant thereby binds himself to this agreement.