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ORDINANCE REGULATING TELEPHONE POLES IN THE CITY
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Hereafter it shall be unlawful for any person or corporation to erect a telegraph or telephone pole or other pole in the streets, alleys, or public places of the City of Jonesboro, without first receiving a written permit therefor from the Chief of Police of the City of Jonesboro. Before any such permit or license shall be issued, the said applicant therefor must first pay to the said Chief of Police twenty-five cents for each and every pole for which a permit shall be issued, which payment shall be a satisfaction of the license fee for the said pole or poles so erected during the current year of the issuance of such permit as required by Sec. 224.
The Chief of Police shall keep a record of such permits, and of the number of such poles, and the same shall be added to the number of poles used by such telephone or telegraph company upon which license is required to be paid, and for each year subsequent to the year of erection shall be collected for as provided in other Ordinances.
The said sum of twenty-five cents for each pole so permitted to be erected, shall go into the fund realized from the license fee on Poles provided for by Sec. 224.
Passed and approved this 19th day of April, 1909
(Section 224, as referenced, is contained in Ordinance 231)