The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1893-12-15
ORDINANCE No. rs,
A n ORDINANCE
Y
RELATING TO SUPPLYING THE TOWN
OF BEL AIR WITH ELECTRIC
HEAT. LIGHT AND POWER

SECTION 1. BE it enacted and ordained by
the Town Commissioners of the Town of Bel
Ar That when the United States Automatic
Service Company, corporation duly organ
lied under the laws of the State of MasSachu-
sets, or its assigns, shall create, erect and
maintain an electric light and power plant
within or near the limits of Bel Air, sufficient
for the ordinary purposes of furnishing the
town with electricity for lighting the streets,
motive power for running electric ears and for
other purposes for the Town and the individu-
ais thereof; that then the said, The United
States Automatic Service Company shall be
entitled to use the streets, avenues and road
ways OF sud town, for electric light power
and railway uses, subject to the provisions of
this ordinance.
SECTION .. And be it further enacted and
ordained, that III laying the wires and tracks,
necessary for said Company. due regard shall
be had for the safety of persons and proper
ty, and that the Town Commissioners will have
full power and authority to direct and super
intend the laying of tracks and wires, and that
all damages resulting from the carelessnesS
and inefticiency of said Company, It's agents or
employees, in the work of constructing the
same, shall be paid by said Company or its as
signs, and for this purpose, before said work
is commenced, said Company or its assigns,
shall be required to file an approved bond in
tee penal sum of Ten Thousand Dollars, to
save the town harmless from any negligence
or ineffciency on the part OF Its agents, as
signs or employees.
SECTION B. And be it further enacted and
ordained, that unless the said, The United
States Automatic Service Company, or its as
signs, shall within one year from the date of
this ordinance, complete and have in working
order the street railway, electric light and
power, that then all the rights and franchises
granted herein shall be null and void and in
case said Company or its assigns shall fail to
operate said railway for continuous period
of more than ninety days, that then this ordi-
nance shall be null and void and the Town
Commissioners shall, by first inserting Il notice
in one of the county newspapers, notifying the
Company to remove the same, compel the re-
moyul of all the tracks and paraphernaliG at
once, at the expense of said Company, or who
ever may be operating the railway.
SECTION 4. And be it further enacted and
ordained, that in the erection of said railway
and wires, the Town Commissioners reserve
the right to locate upon what streets the same
shall be placed, and i'll ali things to have full
and absolute control of the same, so far rs
public rights of citizens of said town are con-
cerned.
SECTION 3. And be it further enacted and
ordained, that in the building or said railway,
the said Company or its assigns, shall not
change the grade, or make any cuts or fills on
said streets, unless with the consent of the
Town Commissioners, and that said Company
or its assigns shall put the streets i'll as good
condition as they are before the work is COM
menccd, and keep the same in good repair, so
far as their tracks occupy said streets, and on
each side thereof for distance of two feet
from said rails
SECTION Is. And be it further enacted and
ordained that this ordinance shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved December 9th. 1893.
FRANK E. GORRELL,
Chairman.