Whether you are a main street business owner in Buffalo, N.Y.’s or small cafe in San Francisco, CA don’t wait for the city threatening to pull the plug on a holiday tradition.
You better not take your chances and plug holiday light displays into street light poles unless you hire licensed electricians to do the work and take out liability insurance of at least $1 million.
Putting up festive holiday lights is a tradition for owners of the shops, restaurants and other businesses along the U.S. Many of us string the lights in trees and plug them into sockets on the city’s light poles.
The local government of Buffalo, N.Y. sent a letter to Elmwood Village Association that spells out restrictions for stringing lights, including having a licensed and insured electrician put them up.