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

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.
 
    * NB Amended L.L. 69/85 § 11, language juxtaposed per Ch. 907/85 § 14