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What is NYC AC § 24-409?

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This section outlines the responsibilities of the commissioner of transportation regarding the regulation of aerial electrical wires or cables in borough streets. It mandates the designation of routes, locations, and heights for such installations to ensure they do not interfere with public use. Applies to entities seeking to install aerial electrical infrastructure.

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§ 24-409 Aerial electrical wires or cables; regulation.

AC § 24-409

Whenever the commissioner of transportation shall permit any aerial electrical wires or cables, carried along or across and above the surface of any of the streets of such boroughs, to be crossed by aerial electrical wires or cables, it shall be the duty of the commissioner of transportation to designate also, in such permit, the route and location thereof, and to prescribe and regulate the height at which such wires or cables shall be placed. Whenever any such permit shall be granted by the commissioner of transportation, in extending the connections of any subterranean electrical conductors, for the erection of any structure or structures for sustaining electrical conductors above the surface of any street, or for placing wires or cables on any such structure or elsewhere than underground, or for carrying any such wires or cables across or along and above the surface of any street, or for placing wires or cables on any such structure or elsewhere than underground, or for carrying any such wires or cables over or into or in the rear of any building in such boroughs, any and all such structures, and any and all such wires or cables, shall be so erected and maintained as not to interfere with the other public uses of such streets.

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