Chapter 587. Regulating permits for private conduits in the District of Columbia
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CHAP. 587.— An Act Regulating permits for private conduits in the District of Columbia. May 26, 1900. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. Commissioners may authorize laying of conduits, etc., in alleys. District of Columbia be, and they are hereby, authorized to grant permission to lay conduits for the transmission of electric power and pipes for the transmission of steam in alleys in the District of Columbia, under the following conditions, namely:
The conduits or pipes shall be laid entirely within a square or block, Conditions. and shall not cross or enter any avenue, street, or highway. The conduits and pipes shall be located as directed by said Commissioners and be laid under their inspection; and the cost of such inspection, together with the cost of replacing all improved pavements disturbed in connection with said work, shall be paid in advance by the party desiring to lay said conduits or steam pipes. The conduits or pipes shall be used only to connect the premises owned and operated by the permittee, and no power or steam shall be supplied therefrom for any other purpose than the use of the permittee. 218 The permittee shall not rent the conduit or pipe or any portion thereof.
Sec. 2. Penalty. That on violation of any of the above provisions or restrictions, the said Commissioners shall require the permittee, after thirty days’ notice, to abandon the use of said conduits or pipes and remove them from the alley or alleys in which they are located, and if said permittee shall neglect or refuse to remove said conduits or pipes and place the surface of the alley in good condition within sixty days after the date of said notice, the said permittee shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be liable to a fine of ten dollars for each and every day that said conduits or pipes are allowed to remain in the alley, or the said alley shall remain out of repair, which fine shall be recovered in the police court of said District, in the name of said District, as other fines and penalties are now recovered in said court.
Sec. 3. Amendment. That Congress reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act. Approved, May 26, 1900.