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2025 Delaware Code
Title 26 - Public Utilities
Chapter 9. TELEGRAPH, TELEPHONE AND ELECTRIC UTILITY CORPORATIONS
Subchapter I. General Provisions
§ 905. Placement of telegraph wires.
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§ 905. Placement of telegraph wires.
Telegraph wires shall be attached to the poles at least 12 feet above the ground except where they enter a house. If any agent of a telegraph company having supervision of the line suffers this provision to be violated for 10 days after notice by mail directed to the agent at the post office nearest the agent's residence, the agent shall forfeit and pay $20 to anyone who will sue for the same.
Code 1852, §§ 2883, 2884; Code 1915, § 4766; Code 1935, § 5229; 26 Del. C. 1953, § 905; 84 Del. Laws, c. 42, § 133;
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