No person shall erect or maintain any telegraph, telephone or electric light poles
on any of the streets or public squares, unless the person erecting or maintaining
the poles first obtains from the Department of Planning and Zoning a license, to be
paid for at the rate as established by resolution of the City Council. This section
does not apply to any pole bearing a public active lamp or active lamp used to light
any street, lane, alley, public square or any other public place.