17-1906. Location and regulation of telegraph poles and lines in cities.
17-1906
17-1906. Location and regulation of telegraph poles and lines in
cities.
The council of any city or trustees of any incorporated town or village
through which the line of any telegraph corporation is to pass, may, by
ordinance or otherwise, specify where the posts, piers or abutments shall
be located, the kind of posts that shall be used, the height at which the
wires shall be run, and such company shall be governed by the regulation
thus prescribed; and after the erection of said telegraph lines, the
council of any city or the trustees of any incorporated town or village
shall have power to direct any alteration in the location or erection of
said posts, piers or abutments, and also in the height at which the wires
shall run, having first given such company or its agents opportunity to be
heard in regard to such alteration.
History: G.S. 1868, ch. 23, § 78; Oct. 31; R.S. 1923, 17-1906.