A. Whenever and wherever electric power poles, telephone poles or other types of wire-carrying poles are placed in the public streets of the city by power generation and distribution agencies or companies and telephone operations and service agencies or companies or other agencies or companies who maintain pole lines located on the public streets within the corporate limits of the city, all such electric power poles, telephone poles or other types of wire-carrying poles shall be placed as nearly as possible in a straight line on the same side of said street, and in no event shall the center of said poles be placed more than 18 inches from the boundary of private property bordering said street.

B. Whenever and wherever electric power poles, telephone poles or other types of wire-carrying poles are placed by power generation and distribution agencies or companies and telephone operation and service agencies or companies or other agencies or companies who maintain pole lines located in the public alleys within the corporate limits of the city, electric power poles and telephone poles or other types of wire-carrying poles shall be placed in said public alleys as close to the private property line of said alleys as is practicable. (Ord. 140 § 1, 1967; 1978 code § 7.34)