HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 594 ORDINANCE No J`!9
AN ORDINANCE granting to the Northern Texas Traction
Company, a corporation, and its sucoessors and assigns, the
right, privilege and franchise to construct, equip, maintain and
operate by electricity or some motive power other than steam, a
line of street railway over and upon certain streets in the City
of Fort Worth, and to erect and maintain poled and overhead trolley
and other necessary wires thereon
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COMUSSIONERS OF THE CITY
OF FORT WORTH:
Section 1: That in consideration of the stipulations
and agreements hereinafter contain&, to be kept and performed by
the Northern Texas Traction Company, its assigns and successors,
the City of Fort Worth, a municipal corporation, has given and
granted, and does hereby give and grant unto the said Northern
Texas Traction Company, a corporation domiciled in Fort Worth,
Tarrant County, Texas, and its sucoessors and assigns, the right,
license and franchise to construct, equip, maintain and operate
a line of single or double track street railway for the carriage
of passengers and freight, together with all necessary turnouts,
Y's, frogs, and connections to present existing tracks at or near
that portion of the street hereinafter designate&, and all poles,
wires and other fixtures, appurtenances or appointments requisite,
convenient or necessary for the construction, operation and main-
tenance of a line of street railway on and over the following
streets in the City of Fort Worth, as an extension of and conned
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tion with the present line of street railway owned and operated
by said grantee, Northern Texas Traction Company, on and over
certain portions of Commerce Street in• said City, to-wit;
Beginning at a point of connection with the present line
of street railway and tracks of the Northern Texas Traction
Company at the intersection of Eighth Street and Commerce Street
in the City of Fort Worth; thence northward and over said Commerce
Street to a point of connection with its present line of tracks
at the intersection of Seventh and commerce Streets. This
franchise and grant of the right to extend said line of street
railway over the street just above mentioned is to be subject
to and run concurrent With the original franchise heretofore
granted by the City of Fort Worth to the Northern Texas Traction
Company and its assigns or successors, to maintain and operate its
said line of street railway tracks over certain portions of dommerce
Street in said city.
Section 2; All tracks laid under the provisions of this
ordinance, except the turnouts and connections to and with
present existing lines and tracks at the intersection of said
Seventh and Commerce Streets and Eighth and Commerce Streets
in said City, shall be laid and kept as nearly as practical in
the middle of the streets whereon said track is to be laid and
said connections made with existing lines of track as aforesaid,
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and the top of each rail of each and every part of said track
and the spaces between the rails shall be kept level with the
streets alongside; and the tracks, wires,poles and all other
equipment shall be all of standard quality and so constrizoted
and maintained that travel on said street shall not be anaeo•
essartly obstructed or endangered at any place; and all matters
of constriction and maintenance shall be subject to the approval
of the city engineer and the city electrician and the Board of
- City Commissioners; all tracks on said street or portions r
thereof that are now or shall hereafter be paved shall be of
first-class rails of such kind as shall be designated by the
City Engineer and shall be laid in such manner as to make the
least possible obstruction to vehicles and shall be maintained
in that condition.
Section 3; Said Northern Texas Traction Company, or its
assigns, shall at its or their cost and expense pave and repave
or otherwise surface and re-surface and keep constantly in good
order and condition with the same material with which the street
on the outside is paved and surfaced, all that part of each street
or streets occupied by it or that which lies between the rails
of said tracks and for eighteen inches on each side thereof as
.may be laid under this franchise, and said Northern Texas Traction
Company, or its assigns and successors shall conform its or their
tracks or any part thereof to the proper grade of each street, and
change the lever of said tracks as often and whenever the grade of
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any such street is changed, so that every part of each track shall
always be kept at the duly established grade line, or as near there-
to, as the surface of the grade of the street outside thereof will
permit,
Section 4; Said Northern Texas Traction Company, its sac•
cessors and assigns, do hereby agree to indemnify and hold the
City of port Worth harmless because of, and promptly to pay off
and discharge,or repay to the said City, all damages, claims,
judgments, attorneys fees and other costs and expenses rendered
against , or incurred, or paid out by the said City of port Worth
by reason of injuries either to persons or property occasioned as
the proximate result of anything done or permitted or in any way
proximately arising oat of the construction, operation or maintenM
ante upon the above streets and thoroughfares, tracks, poles and
wires of said company.
City
Section 5; The/Bngineer shall direct and point out the
places at which poles erected under this ordinance shall be set,
provided always that no poles shall be set in violation of any
City ordinance.
Section 6. All the limitations, provisions and conditions
contained in the ordinance or ordinances referred to granting the
franchise on Commerce Street, shall continue in force and shall
govern and control in addition to the provisions of this ordinance
the ope-•ation and construction of the contemplated extension of
the pr_ sent line as hereby granted,
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Section 7, This ordinance shall take effect and- be
in force from and after its passage.
I hereby certify that the above and foregoing
ordinance was duly presented and unanimously passed and adopted
by the board of commissioners of the city of Fort Wort,_ Texas, at
a regular meeting of said board held Tuesday,
1917.
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