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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 309 ORDINANCE NO AN ORDINANCE granting to the Northern Texas Traction Company, a corporation, and its assigns, the right and franchise to construct, maintain and operate a line of electric street railway over and upon certain streets in the City of Fort Worth and to erect and maintain poles and overhead trolley wires thereon. BE IT ORDAINED by the ,Board of Commissioners of the City of Fort Worth. SECTION 1; That in consideration of the stipulations and agreements hereinafter contained to be kept and performed by the Northern Texas Traction Company, and its assigns, and subject to the limitations herein set forth, the City of Fort Worth, a municipal corporation in the County of Tarrant and State of Texas, has granted, and does hereby grant unto the said Northern Texas Traction Company, a corporation of Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, and its assigns, the right to construct, maintain and operate a line of electric street railway, together with the necessary switches, side tracks and turn-outs over, along and upon the following streets and portions of streets within the corporate limits of the City of Fort Worth, as an extension of and connection with the present line of electric street railway operated by said Northern Texas Traction Co7A2any over Evans Avenue in said City, t owit; Beg nning au a t)oint of connection with the present line of street railway and tracks of the Northern Texas Traction 2 Company at the intersection of Evans Avenue and Allen Avenue in said City; thence Southerly over Evans Avenue to and across Baltimore Street, a distance of approximately 1260 feet . This franchise and grant of the right to extend said lines over the streets just above mentioned to be subject to and run current with the original franchise heretofore granted by the City of Fort Worth to the Northern Texas Traction Company and its assigns to construct, maintain and operate its line of street railway over said Evans Avenue. SEDTION 2: That upon the conditions, limitations and considerations aforesaid and hereinRfter mentioned, the ssid City of Fort worth does hereby grant unto the said Northern Texas Traction Company and its assigns the right to construct, equip, maintain and operate along, upon and over each of the said streets and portions of streets as set forth in section 1 hereof, a line of electric street car tracks with all necessary switches, side tracks and turn-outs, and all necessary poles and wires and overhead equipment for propelling electric street care by overhead trolley system and the right to operate street cars along and over said tracks, to carry goods and passengers for bire upon and over said tracks and to do such other things necessarily incident to the rights and privileges in this ordinance granted. .�'ECTION 3: All the tracks laid under the provisions of this ordinance, except switches and side tracks and turn-outs, and except places where turn-outs are made orwhere the street is partially occupied by some other street car track, shall 3 •• be laid and kept as nearly in the :Addle of the street as is practical 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 street alongside; and the tracks, wires, poles and all other equipment shall be of standard quality and so constructed and maintained that travel upon said streets shall not be unneces- sarily obstructed or endangered at any place and all matters of construction and maintenance shall be subject to the approval of the City Engineer and City Electrician and Board of City Commissioners; all tracks on portions of streets 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 4; Said Northern Texas Traction Company or its assigns shall at its or their own sole cost and expense pave and re-pave 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 occupied by it or that which lies between the rails of said tracks and for 18 inches on egch side thereof, and said Northern Texas Traction Company or its assigns shall conform its or their tracks or any part thereof to the proper grade of each street and change the level of said tracks as often and whenever the grade of any such street is changed so that every part of each track shall always be kept at the duly 4 - established grade line or as near thereto as the surface of the grade of the street outside thereof will permit. SECTION 5; Said Northern Texas Traction Company, its successors and assigns, do hereby agree to indemnify and hold the said City of Fort Worth harmless because of, and promptly to pay off and discharge, or to 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 by reason of injuries eith9r to persdns or property occasioned as the proximate result of anything done or permitted or in any way proximately arising out of the construction, operation, maintenance upon the above streets and thoroughfares of the tracks, poles or wires of said Company. SECTION 6; The City Engineer shall direct and point out 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 7; All the limitations, provisions and conditions contained in this ordinance shall continue in force and shall govern and control in addition to the provisions of this ordinance the operation and construction of the contemplated extension of the present line of railway as hereby granted respectively. SECTION 8; That the Northern Texas Traction Company will build and have in operation the aforesaid extension of street railway within six months from and after the date of granting this franchise herein provided for, and in the event 5 .. Of the failure to so dos said; franchise hereby gran become forfeited. ted shall SECTION 9. That this ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. I hereby certify that the above and fore going ordinance was duly presented and unanimously passed and adopted by the Board of Commissioners of the City of Fort Worth at a session of said Board held Tuesday May 28th,1912. City cretary.