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An ordinance requiring Steam Railway and Street Railway
Companies to maintain suitable culverts, crossings and bridges on all
pudic Lhe .ughfares, where their tracks intersect any such tbQrouAhfares
in the City of Fort Worth, providing penalties for the violation of same
and repealing all ordinances and parts of ordinances in confli0t here-
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"BE IT ORDAINED Bi THE BOAR OF COnISSIONERS OF THE CITY
OF FORT WORTH."
Section 1:-All Steam Railway and Street Railway Companies
whose tracks now, or may hereafter, enter or pass through the corporate
limitsrof the City of Fort Worth, shall respectively repair, keep and
maintain good, safe and sufficient culverts, crossings and bridges, with
good, aeXs-and easy approaches thereto on all public Al le s streets and
highways wh-- their,respective tracks pass under, across or over any
alley, street:^ highway within said city, whether notified to do eo or
not.
Section 23-Any Steam Railway and Street Railway Company
violating the provisions of Section 1 hereof shall be deemed guilty of
a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not exceed-
ing One Hundred dollars.
Section 3:-In the event prosecutions are instituted for
violations of this ordinance, the Clerk of the Corporation Court, upon
complaint duly and legally made, shall issue a a.,rlr:nn, w, ich F;haTl son=
tain the corporate name of the offending company, the nature and
character of the offense, giving the day and date thereof and commanding
such company to be and appear through its duly authorized agent before
the Corporation Court of said city, upon a day and date not earlier than
three days from the service of said summons which shall be served by any
qualified police officer of the city, upon the manager, superintendent
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or any 'local agent representing such Steam Railway or Street Railway
Company in the City of Fort Worth, or by leaving a copy of the same at
the principal office of such company during office hours and the
officer making such service shall make his return showing the way and
manner in which service was had and such return shall be sufficient
proof of service.
In the event such company shall fail to appear, the Clerk
of the Corporation Court shall enter a plea of not guilty for such
M company, whereupon the Court shall hear the teetizgony and proceed to
judgment.
In the event a judgment imposing a finne is rendered against
any such company and the same is not appealed from within the time
prescribed by law, the Clerk of the Oorporation Court, upon order of the
City Recorder, shell issue execution to collect the amount of said fine,
together with all coste, the same to be directed to the chief of police
and to be levied and executed in the same manner that executions are
from the District and County Court and the said chief of police in
levying on and selling the property of any such company shall have like
power and authority as the sheriff in executions issued from the
District or ,County Court and the laws of the State of Texas, so far as
applicable shall applk to and be in full force and effect as to the
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execution issued from the said Corporation Court'
Section 41-All ordinances and parts of ordinances in
conflict herewith, especially Seobi wrd -•oodTf'igrr'bp
William D. Williams and T. J. Powell be and the same are hereby
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repealed.
Section Bs-This ordinance shall take effect and be in force
from and after its passage and publication as required by law.
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I hereby certify that*mio� the above and fore going ordinance was
duly presented and unanimously passed by the Board of Commissioners
of the City of Fort Worth at a session of held Tuesday
dune 7th,1910. "14+gr =^ ,