Annually in the 1^st week of January, all persons or corporations shall pay to the Director of Finance a fee of $50 for each and every telephone, electric light, or other pole used, possessed, or maintained by them in any of the streets, lanes, or alleys of the City of Baltimore, except trolley poles used exclusively for stringing thereon wires for use in the propulsion, by electricity, of street passenger cars. Upon receiving the above fee in January, 1948, and subsequent years:the Director of Finance shall deliver to the person or corporation paying the same a permanent metal plate, with a plain and conspicuous number thereon, to be provided in the manner prescribed in § 23-4, only for such poles for which permanent metal plates have not been issued prior thereto; the Director of Finance shall also keep a record of the name of the person or corporation to whom the license is issued, and the number of poles for which license fees are paid; and he shall also deliver to such person or corporation a certificate that such person or corporation has paid the required license fee for that year, on the specified number of poles, and that permanent metal plates of the given numbers have been issued therefor. Such person or corporation shall then have 1 of such permanent metal plates securely fastened in some conspicuous place upon each of the poles used, possessed, or maintained by it or him. City Code, 1893, art. 50, §75 1927, art. 46, §90 1950, art. 37, §54 1966, art. 28, §90 1976/83, art. 28, §50 Ord. 1893-086 Ord. 25-533 Ord. 47-104 Ord. 70-865 Ord. 84-164 Ord. 90-514