15.32.090 - High voltage wires restricted in certain districts.

It is declared unlawful for any person engaged in the business of transmitting electrical energy by means of overhead wires, where such wires cross any street, alley or public place, or where such wires are placed on poles or super-structures erected or maintained on such streets, alleys or public places, to permit such wires to be used to transmit such electrical energy at a greater voltage than fifteen thousand (15,000) volts, in that portion of the city bounded and described as follows:

Commencing at a point on the northerly charter line of the City of Oakland and the southerly boundary line of the Town of Emeryville where the same is intersected by the easterly line of the right of way of the Southern Pacific Company; thence running easterly along said northerly charter line to the City of Oakland and the southerly boundary line of the Town of Emeryville to the point where said line intersects the westerly boundary of the City of Oakland and the easterly boundary line of the Town of Emeryville; thence running northeasterly, westerly and northerly, following the boundary line between the City of Oakland and the Town of Emeryville, to a point where said last named line intersects the southerly boundary line of the City of Berkeley; thence running along the northerly charter line of the City of Oakland, northeasterly, southerly and easterly to a point on said northerly boundary line of the City of Oakland where said last mentioned line is intersected by Indian Gulch Creek; thence running southwesterly in a straight line to a point where said Indian Gulch Creek is intersected by the westerly line of Matthews Avenue in the City of Oakland; thence running along said westerly line of said Matthews Avenue to its intersection with the northerly line of Cambridge Street; thence running easterly along the northerly line of Cambridge Street to its intersection with the westerly line of Thirteenth Avenue; thence running northeasterly along the westerly line of Thirteenth Avenue to its intersection with the northerly boundary line of the City of Oakland; thence running easterly along said northerly boundary line of the City of Oakland to the easterly boundary line of said City of Oakland; thence southerly running along the easterly boundary line of the City of Oakland to a point where said easterly boundary line of the City of Oakland intersects the northerly line of the right of way of the Southern Pacific Company near Twenty-Fourth Avenue; thence running westerly along the northerly boundary line of the right of way of the Southern Pacific Company and crossing the north arm of Oakland Harbor to a point where the northerly line of First Street intersects the westerly line of Jackson Street; thence running westerly along the northerly line of First Street to a point where the said northerly line of First Street intersects the westerly line of Magnolia Street; thence running westerly in a straight line to a point where the easterly line of the right of way of the Southern Pacific Company intersects the northerly line of Seventh Street; thence running northerly along the eastern boundary line of the right of way of the Southern Pacific Company to a point where the same intersects the northerly charter line of the City of Oakland and the southerly boundary line of the town of Emeryville and point of beginning.

The Superintendent of Fire Alarm and Police Telegraph is directed to report to the City Manager all violations of the provisions of this section.

(Prior code § 2-4.10)