No. 74 Regulation, Installation and Operation of Electrical & Mechanical Devices
TOWN OF NEWELL
Ordinance 74
Regulation, Installation, and Operation of Electrical
And Mechanical Devices
Section 1. That on and after the passage of this Ordinance it shall be unlawful for any person, form or corporation to install or operate power light plants or transmission lines, telephone plants or line, motors or other electrical or mechanical devices within the City of Newell, which create in the operation thereof, preventable atmospheric disturbances, which interfere with radio reception, or any such device which in any other manner interferers with radio reception, within the City of Newell.
Section 2. That on and after the passage of this Ordinance, it shall be unlawful to operate in the City of Newell, any radio receiving equipment in such a manner as to cause electrostatic or electromagnetic waves to radiate from the antenna in such a manner as to result in interferences with radio reception.
Section 3. The Mayor shall appoint a Radio Commissioner who shall serve without pay, whose term of office shall expire at the option of the Mayor and Council. Such appointment to be confirmed by Council.
Section 4. The Radio Commissioner shall have full power and authority to enter upon any premises within the City of Newell, at all daylight hours to make examinations of, and test, all radio receiving equipment, power or light plants, or transmission lines, telephone plants or lines, and all motors of other electrical or mechanical devices now or hereafter installed and in operation in the City of Newell, and to inspect the installation of any such devices, and upon finding that any such radio receiving equipment, power or light plants, transmission lines, telephone plants or lines, motors or other mechanical or electrical device is interfering with radio reception in the City of Newell, he shall forthwith notify in writing such person, firm or corporation owning or operating the same of such interference with radio reception, and if such interferences is preventable such person, firm or corporation shall with in thirty (30) days after the receipt of such notice cause such radio interference to cease.
Section 5. That any person, firm or corporation failing to cause such preventable radio interference to cease within thirty (30) days from and after the receipt of the Notice herein before provided for, shall be guilty of a violation of this Ordinance and upon conviction shall be Fined not less than ten ($10.00) dollars or more than fifty ($50.00) dollars for each day thereafter that such radio interference continues.
Approved: February 17, 1930.