Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-08-08
City Ordinance
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An ordinance granting to the Santa Fe
Gas and Electric company the right to
construct, operate and maintain gas and
electric plants, in the city of Santa Fe,
for illuminating and other purposes.
Section 1.-The Santa Fe Gas and
Electric company, corporation organic
ed and existing under the laws of the ter
ritory of New Mexico, and it's successors
and assigns, are hereby authorized and
empowered to erect, construct, maintain
and operate in, upon, under or through
any of the streets, roads, lanes, alleys and
other public thoroughfares, places or
grounds, all necessary conduits, gas mains
or pipes, lamps and lamp-posts, and all
other accessory poles, GROSS bars, wires,
fixtures and lines, and all other, appli-
ances requisite and essential for the sup
plying Of the city of Santa Fe, and the
inhabitants thereof, within its present or
future limits, with gas or electricity, for
Illuminating public streets or places or
private dwellings,, with gas, incandescent
or arch lights or both, and for supplying
power, light, heat or fuel by the use of
coal, gas or electricity or both combined,
for public or domestic use, with full
power and authority to excavate any such
street, road, lane, alley or other highway
or public ground or all Of the same, with
in said present or future limits of said
city, for the purpose of carrying out to
their full extent, the corporate powers of
said com pany as we'll as the powers and
privileges hereby specifically granted to
said company.
| Section 2.-There shall be no necessary
obstruction Of any such street, road,
lane, alley or other highway or public
ground in the making Of such excavations
or in the performance of the work herein
authorized, and any such street, road, lane,
alley or other highway or public ground
shall be restored to as good condition
as the same was before such excavation
was made or work performed, and without
unnecessary delay, by said company at
its own expense,
Section 3.-The construction, building,
operating and maintaining of the plant
or plants, work or works of the said com
pany, shall be free from any cost, expense
or charge to said city, and any and all
damages, claims or demands arising or
occurring in such construction and build
ing or the maintaining and repairing of
the same after construction, shall be al
the expense of the said company, its sue
cessors or assigns.
Section 4.--The location of all poles
and lamp-post erected for illuminating or
other purposes, shall be fixed by the city
, council of said city, and under the direc-
, ton and control of said city council or
such officer as it may designate.
Section 5.-This franchise is made and
given and is to be enjoyed subject to all
regulations, rules and ordinances Of a
policy nature or other wise, as the city
council of the said city may, from time to
time, adopt or which have already been
adopted by said council, and which are NOT
in derogation of the rights conferred
under this franchise.
| Section 6.-That all the rights, privi
leges and powers granted by the city Of
Santa Fe to the said The Santa Fe Gar
). and Electric company, its successors and
assigns, as set forth and specified in the
preceding sections of this ordinance be
; and the same are hereby granted for thu
term of twenty-five years, from the date
8 of the acceptance of this franchise by the
8 said company.
Section 1.-THE work contemplated BY
said company under this franchise shall
I, be commenced by said company within
t one year from the date of the passage o.
I this ordinance, and if not so commenced
within said time this franchise shall lapse
and become null and void and Of nj
effect. The purchase of any other gas o.
!. electric light system now in operation II
this city, by said company, and the con
timing and operating of the same o.
either of them, by said company, afte
: such purchase, within the said period Q
!, ,ne year, shall be deemed full compli
o ance with the provisions Of this section
CHAs. F. EAsLEY,
'' Temporary president,
A. P. HILL,
City Clerk.