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File #: 930234    Version:
Type: Ordinance Status: Placed On File
File created: 5/25/1993 In control: COMMON COUNCIL
On agenda: Final action: 10/9/1998
Effective date:    
Title: A substitute ordinance relating to placement of telephone booths on public property.
Sponsors: E. Faye Anderson, ALD. PRATT, ALD. BUTLER, ALD. HENNINGSEN, Fredrick Gordon, ALD. NARDELLI, ALD. SCHRAMM, ALD. MURPHY
Indexes: COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, WISCONSIN BELL
NUMB:
930234
VERS:
SUBSTITUTE 1
REF:

XXBY:
ALD. E. F. ANDERSON, PRATT, BUTLER, HENNINGSEN,
GORDON, NARDELLI, SCHRAMM AND MURPHY
TITL:
A substitute ordinance relating to placement of telephone booths on public property.
SECS:
115-39-3 rc
115-39-4 rc
115-39-5 rc
115-39-8 cr
115-39-9 cr
ANLS:
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- Analysis -

This ordinance:

1. Replaces the current procedure for granting permission to place a telephone booth on public property with a new requirement that the applicant obtain a special privilege permit from the common council.

2. Replaces the current $10 application fee with the standard fee for granting of special privileges.

3. Establishes a requirement that the common council member in whose district a proposed telephone booth would be located be notified of the proposal within 5 days of submittal of the special privilege permit application.

4. Makes explicit the authority of the common council to revoke, at any time, a permit allowing a telephone booth on public property.

5. Creates a requirement that any public utility which owns, operates, manages or otherwise controls telephone booths on public property in the city of Milwaukee submit a list of all such booths to the department of public works on an annual basis.

6. Exempts telephone booths placed on public property prior to the effective date of this ordinance from the requirement for special privilege permits but allows the common council to order the removal of such telephone booths upon serving proper written notice to the affected public utility.

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BODY:
The Mayor and Common Council of the City of Milwaukee do ordain as follows:

Part 1. Section 115-39-3 to 5 of the code is repealed and recreated to read:

115-39. Erection of Telephone Booths on Public Property.

3. The applicant shall save the city harmless from all

liability...

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