The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-06-12
Ordinance No. 334.
Eirst nublished juno l2, lS96.l

First published June ~ 1851
AN ORDINANCE authorizing corporations,
firms, companies, individual or Individuals
to lay and maintain pipes in the streets, ave
nues alleys, lawns and public grounds in the
city Of lola Kansas. for the purpOseOf supply
ing said city and its inhabitants with natural
gas for heating, manufacturing, mechanical
and Illuminating purposes, and regulating the
manner of laying such pipes, the kind and
quality OF the same; and providing penalties
for the violation of the provisions OF such
ordinance.
DE IT ORDAINED by the Mayor and Coun-
ID cilmen of the City of lola, KansaE
SECTION l. That any corporation organized
under the laws OF the State OF Kansas, OF any
firm, company or individual or individuals
having it's his or their Office In the city Of lola,
Allen county, Kansas, may lay, maintain, and
extend mains, trenches, pipes and conduits
through the streets, avenues, alleys and pubic
grOunds of said city and may take the same up
for the purpose of altering, changing or repair
ing from time to time, as the necessities OF the
case may require, for the purpose OF supplying
said city and It's inhabitants with natural gas
for heating, manufacturing, mechanical and
Illuminating purposes, under and subject 10 the
restrictions aud upon the conditions hereinafter
set out
SEC. g. All mains and pipes laid in said city
shall be laid in the streets whenever the same
is practicable and no route shall ever be selected
or pipes or mains laid IN SAID CITY by any cor
poratiOn, firm, company, individual or indiyid-
uals, until a general plan showing the streets,
alleys, avenues or public grounds 10 be opened,
and the proposed lOCdIlOu OF IUAlIlS OF pipes
in such streets alleys, avenues or public grounds
shall have been furnished 20 the city council OF
the city of lola, Kansas. Additional plsts
shall be furnished from time TO time showing
the route of any proposed extension OF said
mains and pipes.
SEC 3. Whenever the city Of lola shall de-
termine to construct any sewer ill., along or across
any street, alley, avenue or public ground
where any mains or pipes OF any such corpora
ton, firm company individual or individuals
shall be laid. said corporation, firm. company,
lsyvs.N 10 ffaf no
shall al its, his or their own expense, lower,
elevate change or remove the mains or pipes
so that said sewer may be laid at the point and
place determined on by said city.
SEC. 4 All pavements, sidewalks, crossWalks,
curbStOnes, ;gutters, streets, alleys, or public
grounds in any way dis placed, disturbed or In
iured by any corporation, hrm, company, mol
vidual or individuals in laying, altering, repair
ing maintaining its, his or their mains, pipes,
street boxes, valves or other appliances, shall
Immediately be restored, replaced, repaired and
put in as good condition as the same were be-
lore disturbed or displaced as aforesaid.
SEC. 5. All work in laying or repairing mains
or pipes shall be prosecuted i'll such manner as
not to interfere with the public use or travel
upon the streets, avenues. and alleys of said
city where it can be avoided, and when such
use is unayoidably obstructed such corpora
ton, firm. company, individual or individuals
it, he or they as the case may be- shall with all
reasonable dispatch, repair, AID replace such
street avenue, alley aud public ground, so that
the public use will not be obstructed beyond q
reasonable time. The work shall be pushed as
rapidly as possible to completion and all of the
streets, avenues, alleys and public grounds
shall be promptly restored to as good condition
as they were in when the work was commenced
and shall be keptin such condition by said cor
| poration, firm, company Individual or individ-
uals as the case may be, for the period of one
year. and that due diligence and precautiOn
| shall be used while prosecuting the work, and
during the year to avoid accidents.
| SEC. 6. All pipes, mains and apparatus NJ any
kind and description used by any corporation
| e nd Or vi
uses and purposes in this ordinance Specified
snail be OF the most approved designand quality
| All mains and pipes shall be standard weight
and shall be so laid as not TO interfere with the
| grounds after the same are in place. Themains
and service pipes shall also be so laiG
and maintained in the public streets
ALLEYS avenues and public grounds of sale
CITY as to prevent the escape of gas, and il
| such manner as that the use Of the gas will b,
| safe. Said service pipes shall be laid to tn,
property line at the expense Of the corporation
company, firm, person or persons supplying
such gas.
SEC. l. Any corporation, firm. company
individual or individuals in and about the dig
ging or filling Of trenches, laying Of mains pipes
or cOnduits. or connecting or testing the same
that shall prosecute their said work In careless
dilatory, Incompetent or unskillful manner
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, an
on conviction shall be punished as is herein
after provided in this ordinance.
SEC. 8. All mains, pipes. or condutss. used 70
the purpose OF supplying udLuIdl gas snail D
known and classified as follows:
First-All mains Intended as feeders for tn
supply of gas for q general system of mains o
pipes shall be known and classified as hig
pressure mains.
Second-An pipes intended to carry gas fc
the supply OF domestic consumption shall
known and classified as low pressure mains.
Third-All supply pipes leading from tn
mains to the property line of consumers sha
be known and classified as service pipes.
Fourth-All pipes leading from the propert
consumption shall be known and classified 9
house connections. The term property line
hereby defined to mean the line OF the stree
avenue or alley upon which the property owne
or occupied by the consumer is located. A
pipes conveying or supplying natural gas undo
any of the above classifcations shall be sui
jected TO the regulations, requirements and II
strietions Of their respective classes.
SEC. 9. That the top of any and all natur
gas mains and service pipes laid for the purpo!
of conveying or supplying natural gas in sal