§ 23-4. Metal plates.

(a) Director to obtain.

It shall be the duty of the Director of Finance on or before January 1, 1926, to purchase a sufficient number of permanent metal plates, numbered with plain conspicuous numbers, beginning with a given number for each person or corporation required to license its poles as hereinafter provided, and so on progressively, and on or before January 1, 1927, and subsequent years, to purchase a sufficient number of permanent metal plates, beginning with the number next succeeding that last issued to any person or corporation, or with a given number, if the person or corporation has had no licensed poles during 1926 or subsequent years, said permanent metal plates to be furnished as prescribed in § 23-3 to the persons or corporations using, possessing, or maintaining telegraph, telephone, electric light, or other poles other than trolley poles used exclusively for stringing wires thereon for use in the propulsion, by electricity, of street passenger cars.

(b) Specifications.

The Director of Finance shall cause such permanent metal plates to display the initials or some other symbol denoting the person or corporation to which they are issued; the said plates to be of suitable size and description, in the discretion of the Director of Finance and to be paid for out of the appropriation for general licenses.

(c) Transfer to replacement pole.

Provided that in the event any licensee shall replace any pole with another, he may transfer the license to such other pole.

(d) Replacement plates.

And provided, further, that the Director of Finance may purchase and furnish without cost to the licensee, duplicate metal plates whenever in his judgment those in use have become illegible through natural wear and tear.